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Missing dog suspected stolen
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Norfolk OPP are investigating a suspected dog-napping west of Simcoe.
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Police were called to an address on East Quarter Line Road in the former Charlotteville Township Wednesday around 6:15 p.m. after a four-month-old blue merle border collie went missing.
The dog’s owner told police that, around 4 p.m., they went outside to bring in their dogs. The complainant told police they turned their back to head into the house when they heard a vehicle drive away. At that moment, the complainant realized the four-month old pup was missing.
The dog in question is black, white and grey in colour.
Anyone with information related to the incident is asked to call Norfolk OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Tipsters can also share information with Crime Stoppers of Norfolk and Haldimand at 1-800-222-8477.
Callers to Crime Stoppers who help solve a crime are eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000.
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https://www.simcoereformer.ca/news/local-news/missing-dog-suspected-stolen
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Ep. 483 — Tony Fabrizio – The Axe Files with David Axelrod – Podcast on CNN Audio
5 PM ET: Ukraine evacuations stalled, gasoline costs, human spaceflight & extra
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David Axelrod, the founder and director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, brings you The Axe Files, a sequence of showing interviews with key figures within the political world. Go past the soundbites and get to know among the most attention-grabbing gamers in politics.
Ep. 483 — Tony Fabrizio The Axe Files with David Axelrod Growing up, GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio hung out serving to out at his grandfather’s produce stand in Brooklyn, promoting every little thing from watermelons to Christmas bushes. While he was at all times occupied with politics, fostered by an early fascination with Richard Nixon, the concept of politics as a profession didn’t take form for Tony till he moved to Long Island at age 12. Tony joined David to speak about how he obtained his begin in political polling, the story behind the notorious Willie Horton advert, working with Donald Trump on his presidential campaigns, Trump’s 2024 prospects, and getting kicked out of the Young Republicans. Mar 31, 2022
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https://thewall.fyi/ep-483-tony-fabrizio-the-axe-files-with-david-axelrod-podcast-on-cnn-audio/
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Belarus targeted Ukraine, Poland in phishing campaigns: Google
Google’s threat analysis team said that Belarus has targeted Ukrainian and Polish officials with phishing attacks amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a blog post on Tuesday, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said Ghostwriter, a Belarusian hacking group, has conducted phishing campaigns targeting Polish and Ukrainian government and military organizations in the past week. The campaigns aimed to get officials’ credentials.
TAG added that Ghostwriter has also targeted individuals using several Ukrainian, Russian and Polish email providers.
The threat analysis team also said attack group Fancy Bear, which it identified as being affiliated with Russia’s military intelligence agency had conducted several large phishing campaigns over the past two weeks targeting users of ukr.net, a Ukrainian media company. The phishing emails were sent from compromised accounts and led to credential phishing pages.
“Online security is extremely important for people in Ukraine and the surrounding region right now. Government agencies, independent newspapers and public service providers need it to function and individuals need to communicate safely,” TAG said in the post. “Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working around the clock, focusing on the safety and security of our users and the platforms that help them access and share important information.”
“We’ll continue to take action, identify bad actors and share relevant information with others across industry and governments, with the goal of bringing awareness to these issues, protecting users and preventing future attacks,” it continued. “And while we are actively monitoring activity related to Ukraine and Russia, we continue to be just as vigilant in relation to other threat actors globally, to ensure that they do not take advantage of everyone’s focus on this region.”
This comes more than a week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since the assault began, the U.S. and its allies have leveled multiple waves of sanctions against Moscow.
They have also imposed sanctions targeting a number of Belarusian individuals and entities in response to Minsk allowing Russia to use the country as a staging ground for the invasion.
The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter.
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https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/597353-belarus-targeted-ukraine-poland-in-phishing-campaigns-google/
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Shares of Pfizer Inc.
PFE,
-1.28%
slid 1.28% to $51.77 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.57%
falling 1.57% to 4,530.41 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.56%
falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. This was the stock's third consecutive day of losses. Pfizer Inc. closed $9.94 below its 52-week high ($61.71), which the company reached on December 20th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Johnson & Johnson
JNJ,
-1.31%
fell 1.31% to $177.23, Merck & Co. Inc.
MRK,
-0.42%
fell 0.42% to $82.05, and Novartis AG ADR
NVS,
-0.24%
fell 0.24% to $87.75. Trading volume (25.8 M) remained 7.7 million below its 50-day average volume of 33.5 M.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pfizer-inc-stock-falls-thursday-still-outperforms-market-01648761262-e5cf3239f580
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“Insecure” review: The end of an era
March 31, 2022
After getting sick with COVID-19 at the start of the year and being stuck at home for two weeks, I felt I had no choice but to binge watch all five seasons of HBO’s “Insecure.” The final season finished airing December 26, 2021 and let me tell you: creators Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore did an amazing job with the show.
“Insecure” is loosely based on a Youtube series called “Awkward Black Girl” created by Rae. We follow the career, lovelife, and emotional development of 29-year-old Los Angeles native Issa Dee, who Rae portrays. We also get snippets of the lives of Issa’s best friend Molly Carter (Yvonne Orji) and Issa’s first love Lawrence Wilmore (Jay Ellis). The journeys of these characters are also paired with a fire-ass playlist that introduces you to up and coming Black artists as well as their best sense of fashion.
This comedy-drama is revolutionary to me because it shows normal Black people living their everyday lives with a dark-skinned female lead. If I’m being honest, I’m tired of seeing shows about Black people that only center around race or slavery. It’s also sickening that most Black shows have Black female leads who are light-skinned (i.e. “Grown-ish” or “Euphoria”). The representation in “Insecure” shows dark-skinned women making their own choices, enjoying themselves, and having control over their own narratives.
Issa Dee is the most relatable character I have ever watched on screen. She is perfectly imperfect with so many layers. To start her day, for example, she literally talks to herself in the mirror and imagines that her reflection is responding to her thoughts. Issa and her reflection rap, cry, laugh, and console each other as well as make decisions together.
As you may have already guessed from the show’s title, Issa does not have her life together. She’s not secure in her career or love life, which is something society expects you to have locked down by your mid-20s when in fact Issa is about to turn 30. At first, watching this show was scary for me because I am 20 years old with no sense of organization in my life. I always expected this weight of uncertainty and doubt in myself to go away sooner, but “Insecure” taught me that it’s okay to have uncertainty or lingering curiosity because it can then lead to self-discovery.
I’m not going to lie, watching Issa figure herself out was super frustrating. In one scene, for example, she was all into the idea of being with her love interest Nathan (Kendrick Sampson). She tells him that she loved him and that she wanted to start a life with him, when in reality, she was having sexual fantasies about her first love Lawrence. It actually sucked because Nathan is fine as hell and he is a great dude, but that’s Issa for you *shrugs shoulders*.
The show also highlights how it is okay for you to make the wrong choice or make a mistake. As a Black woman, it’s rare to see coming-of-age stories about people like me. Issa cheated on her boyfriend, quit her job and became an Uber driver. She got robbed, got into a car accident, went broke and that’s not even half of it. Things like this can seem like the end of the world, but all you can do is move on and keep going. Throughout this relatable struggle Issa was going through, the writer’s room kept me laughing. Issa has this awkward sense of humor that’s so cringey that you can’t do anything but cackle.
In comparison to Issa who has a type-B personality, Yvonne Orji’s Molly has a very type-A personality. She has a constantly elevating career as a lawyer and is very confident in her abilities. But her romantic relationships are iffy. Let’s just say that when she has an idea of how something should be, she has a very difficult time accepting anything else.
Watching her as a character was also frustrating because you would think since you have your career together that life would be simpler, but it’s not. Molly represents the people that have to learn to accept imperfection and compromise. For instance, Molly unexpectedly falls for a childhood friend who is in an open marriage. Molly expected him to center their relationship over his wife but that was something he was not willing to do. This left Molly in a spiral that was hard to stop herself from spinning from.
Everyone should definitely give this show a look because of its vulnerability, realness, and Blackness. Any interested viewer can binge watch it all the way until the end with no worries of when the next episode will come out. Enjoy!
Click here to stream “Insecure” on HBO Max.
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https://loyolamaroon.com/10034650/life-times/reviews/insecure-review-the-end-of-an-era/
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Editor,
We pledge allegiance to our country’s flag and declare our nation to be “indivisible.” But even this simple pledge has changed over time to reflect the values of the day. Our shared values today in our globalized world require that we listen to one another and that we hear the diverse voices that have always been a part of our national fabric, but which have been overlooked or ignored for too long. Without all of us doing this hard work of listening, our democracy will not remain “indivisible,”
Carmel is a community that wholeheartedly supports our top-ranked school system. In fact, I believe the majority of citizens either grew up here or moved here because of these award-winning schools. My family moved here eight years ago for the school system. We are happy with the results and progress. But now our public school system, staff members and individuals who support diversity, equity and inclusion work are under attack, locally and nationally — all politicized by groups and individuals who believe the schools and people are players in a liberal conspiracy to indoctrinate our youth.
We are supposed to be a nation that accepts all and recognizes our differences. We must avoid, at all costs, being confined by our broken history of oppression and exclusion (nonrepresentation). I am not here to dwell on the past; however, it is important to understand perspectives of the historically excluded. Many of us, right here in Carmel, are members of groups that have been historically excluded from curricula and full civic participation, and the consequence of that exclusion is the sad state of affairs we all now raise our children in.
Rather than attack our schools/teachers/individuals, let us reach out to those different than us and have meaningful conversations about their experiences. Leave your presuppositions at the door, be vulnerable and reflect as a community. We did not create this mess, but we absolutely can influence positive change toward inclusivity and fairness for all. I am no history teacher or economics guru, but I surely am a loving neighbor who believes it takes a community to raise the next generation. If we allow partisan politics to influence public education, we are surely in a negative spiral toward the demise of American democracy.
It took work to break a culture and legal system of racial bias and historical exclusion, and it will take more work to sustain and improve it for our children, grandchildren and beyond. We must work to end this politicizing of DEI and social emotional learning. Our kids deserve better. Much love and respect to all!
Todd D. Crosby, Carmel
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https://www.youarecurrent.com/2022/03/31/letter-to-be-an-indivisible-nation-we-need-to-listen-to-our-neighbors/
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To the Editor,
When I was at the Newtown Christian Church recently signing the petition the community wants on the US-460 road update, I noticed a historical picture of the church. I asked for permission to take a picture and then posted it on Facebook, then I was asked for more information on the church.
Before I go into some of the church history I want to tell my opinion about why so many small rural churches are located at intersections, as is Newtown Christian, back in time. It gave exposure to the church and it’s affiliation as you drove by. It provided ease of access that the church leaders knew was important that attendees could enter and exit safely.
Newtown Christian Church is a Disciples of Christ Church, built in the mid-1850’s and much of the same building is still the main part of the church. It is at the intersection of what was the Georgetown-Paris Road and Leesburg Pike back then. An Elder named John A. Gano became the church’s minister and I read 30 or so members attended then, about the same or maybe a little more that attend today.
The town itself was formed very early in Kentucky history, maybe as early as 1775. The settlers knew the soil was rich and there was abundant water from Boyd’s Run and Cherry’s Run for their livestock. These streams feed into nearby North Elkhorn Creek.
The life of early settlers was challenging to say the least. Indians were plentiful and troublesome and they would raid the community, steal their livestock and sometimes murder the people, so I read. Life was tough, but so were the residents of Newtown and they prevailed.
Newtown has had to change with the times, today there are more five acre tracts and small horse farms. Tobacco has been gone for about 20 years, so today horses, cattle, hay and grain crops fill the void as the rich soil still make agriculture the best use for the land.
My impression is the community wants to “live and let live.” I believe both farmers and their five acre neighbors want to be left alone as much as possible. They believe the least disturbance necessary to improve the road is the way to go.
I’m sure all of my neighbor’s join me in urging the highway department (District 7) to disturb this “historic community” as little as possible by improving the road straight through town. This route would save four houses (homes) and three farms.
Charles Adams
Georgetown
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https://www.news-graphic.com/opinion/historic-community-needs-no-disruptions/article_bd64a40e-b136-11ec-b005-fbd4062aaa64.html
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ SuperCom Ltd. (SPCB) on Thursday reported a loss of $5.4 million in its fourth quarter.
The Tel Aviv, Israel-based company said it had a loss of 32 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 1 cent per share.
The traditional and digital identity solutions provider posted revenue of $3 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $10.1 million, or 38 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $12.3 million.
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https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/SuperCom-Q4-Earnings-Snapshot-17049695.php
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LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A student at Alameda International High School in Lakewood died earlier this month from an accidental fentanyl overdose, according to a letter sent to parents by the school principal.
The letter references the death of 16-year-old Kimberly Jimenez Figueroa, which occurred during the district's spring break.
"We have learned that Kimberly died from an accidental drug overdose laced with fentanyl," principal Susie Van Scoyk wrote in the letter.
Van Scoyk said Kimberly's family gave permission for the school to share information about her death "in an effort to help others who may be struggling."
A Gofundme related to Kimberly's death has been created, however, 9NEWS has not independently confirmed its veracity.
The letter encouraged families, educators and others to have "open and non-judgmental conversations" about the realities of substance use and misuse.
The letter recommended Twelve Talks to Have with Teens as a resource to help adults talk with teens about a variety of difficult topics they are facing.
Other resources include:
- Jefferson Center for Mental Health: 303-425-0300
- JCMH Walk-In Crisis Center: 4643 Wadsworth Blvd, Wheat Ridge
- Colorado Crisis Services: call 1-844-493-TALK (8255), or text TALK to 38255
- Safe2Tell: 1-877-542-7233
9NEWS has reached out to the Lakewood Police Department for information about the investigation into Kimberly's death and will update this story when we learn more.
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https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/accidental-fentanyl-overdose-lakewood-teen/73-1be333ed-c874-4e66-8893-bab1115877ca
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U.S. District Judge Mark Walker agreed with voters who sued the state that the bill “runs roughshod over the right to vote, unnecessarily making voting harder for all eligible Floridians, unduly burdening disabled voters, and intentionally targeting minority voters — all to improve the electoral prospects of the party in power.”
Walker said that for the next decade, changes to voting laws that affect third-party registration efforts, drop boxes or “line warming” — in which volunteers offer water or chairs to people waiting in line to vote — must be approved first by the court.
“Florida has repeatedly, recently, and persistently acted to deny Black Floridians access to the franchise,” Walker wrote. “This Court also finds that preclearance would prevent future violations.”
Voting rights activists hailed the ruling as a “landmark de”ision," while Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) dismissed it as “performative partisanship.”
“This is a huge victory for voters in this state,” said Jasmine Burney-Clark, founder of Equal Ground, one of the groups that sued the state. “It also feels like we are moving the needle forward in expanding access to the ballot box in Florida.”
DeSantis (R) signed the bill, known as SB 90, into law in May, live on Fox News. Although he had touted the state’s elections seven months earlier as flawless, he still pushed changes that critics say would make it harder to vote.
His enthusiasm for changing election laws continued this year, but Thursday’s court ruling means that many of those changes may not be enacted.
At a news conference in West Palm Beach on Thursday, DeSantis said Walker’s ruling “was not unforeseen,” and that it will be reversed on appeal.
“It’s just a matter of how quickly it’s going to get reversed,” he said.
Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls (R) called Walker’s pre-clearance order “an egregious abuse of his power.”
Walker presided over the nonjury trial in Tallahassee for three weeks this year. His 288-page decision issued Thursday included the recounting of several acts of violence against Black voters in Florida in the past, including a massacre of more than 30 Black residents in Ocoee in 1920 on Election Day after a Black voter went to the polls.
“What is this Court to make of this history? To be sure, there are those who suggest that we live in a post-racial society,” Walker wrote. “But that is simply not so. Florida’s painful history remains relevant; it echoes into the present and sets the stage for SB 90.”
Brenda Wright, senior adviser for legal strategies at the think tank Demos, said Walker recognized the “extremely egregious history of racial discrimination in voting” in his ruling.
“He put together the picture of what SB 90 has done to voting rights in the context of Florida’s history of discrimination,” Wright said. “I would hope this would give pause to those who would enact further restrictions on voting rights.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/31/judge-strikes-down-florida-election-law-changes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court said Thursday that it will open an office in Venezuela as it investigates allegations of torture and killings by the South American country’s security forces.
The decision to open the office was announced by ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan at the end of a three-day trip to the capital, Caracas.
In a televised appearance alongside President Nicolás Maduro, Khan said he welcomed the commitment of the Venezuelan government to explore cooperation and technical assistance as part of the efforts to investigate alleged crimes against humanity.
Among other measures, Khan said Maduro’s government agreed to provide visas to court officials and to the participation of international organizations and partners, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
“Any state that encounters difficulties in complying with the rule of law must be respected,” Khan said. He added that he is “aware that the visit has not been easy, perhaps; but I feel very grateful for the commitment and the frank debates that we have had.”
Khan announced the investigation in November. At the time, the court and Maduro’s administration signed a memorandum of understanding in which the government agreed to cooperate to clarify the facts that led to the initiation of the process.
That announcement followed a lengthy preliminary probe started in February 2018 that focused on allegations of excessive force, arbitrary detention and torture by security forces during a crackdown on anti-government protests in 2017.
Khan’s predecessor, Fatou Bensouda, had indicated there was a reasonable basis to conclude that crimes against humanity had been committed in Venezuela, echoing the findings of the U.N.’s human rights council last year. But she left the decision to open any probe to Khan, a British lawyer who took the reins of the ICC earlier this year.
Maduro on Thursday said the opening of the office in Venezuela will allow for an “effective level of dialogue” that will help clarify the facts in a timely manner.
“We are first interested in seeing justice carried out, and where a crime of the characteristics is committed, it be punished according to the law, on time,” Maduro said. He added that the country’s judicial system is being overhauled.
Since its creation two decades ago, the ICC has mostly focused on atrocities committed in Africa. It could be years before any criminal charges are presented as part of the court’s investigation.
In a written statement, Khan said the start of the process “is not a one-way street” and should also serve as the basis for stronger partnerships.
He said efforts to put into effect the memorandum of understanding will include providing technical assistance and knowledge transfer to Venezuelan authorities “to support the effective investigation and prosecution at the national level of alleged crimes,” as well as offering training and expert advice to help implement domestic legislation.
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https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/International-Criminal-Court-to-open-office-in-17049625.php
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A common brand of romaine lettuce is being recalled from Minnesota stores.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) says Romaine Hearts by Ocean Mist Farms may contain Cyclospora, a parasite that can cause intestinal problems including diarrhea, stomach cramps and nausea.
The recall applies only to the 22 oz. package harvested on March 10 and includes the coding, “22RHDM2L.”
Many stores in Minnesota sell this brand of romaine lettuce, including Kowalski’s Markets and Festival Foods.
MDA issued the recall on March 31 saying they discovered the contamination during routine surveillance sampling. Customers who purchased the product should throw it away.
So far, no illness has been reported, according to the MDA.
Below is a list of stores that sell the product:
- Bob’s Produce Ranch – Fridley, MN
- Brink’s Market – Chisago City, MN
- Coborn’s Grocery – Hastings, MN
- Daggett’s Fresh Foods – Hinckley, MN
- Driskill’s Downtown Market – Hopkins, MN
- Festival Foods – Andover, MN
- Festival Foods – Bloomington, MN
- Festival Foods – Hugo, MN
- Festival Foods – Lexington, MN
- Festival Foods – White Bear Lake, MN
- Festival Foods – Brooklyn Park, MN
- Jerry’s Market – North Branch, MN
- Jubilee Foods – Mound, MN
- King’s County Market – Andover, MN
- King’s County Market – St. Francis, MN
- Knowlan’s Fresh Foods – Maplewood, MN
- Knowlan’s Fresh Foods – South St. Paul, MN
- Kowalski’s Market – Eagan, MN
- Kowalski’s Market – Excelsior, MN
- Kowalski’s Market – Eden Prairie, MN
- Kowalski’s Market on Grand – St. Paul, MN
- Kowalski’s Market on Chicago – Minneapolis, MN
- Kowalski’s Market on Lyndale – Minneapolis, MN
- Kowalski’s Market – Oak Park Heights, MN
- Kowalski’s Market – Shoreview, MN
- Kowalski’s Market – White Bear Lake, MN
- Kowalski’s Market – Woodbury, MN
- Longfellow Market – Minneapolis, MN
- Mackenthun’s Foods – Waconia, MN
- North Market – Minneapolis, MN
- Oxendale’s Market Randolph – St. Paul, MN
- Speedy Market – St. Paul, MN
- Super One Plaza – Duluth, MN
- Super One West – Duluth, MN
- Super One – Two Harbors, MN
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https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/03/31/romaine-lettuce-brand-recalled-due-to-possible-parasite-contamination/
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(ABC4) – If you’re tired of looking at old furniture that you bought last year from IKEA, the retailer has announced that it will now pay customers to bring back old furniture.
The IKEA buyback and resell option has now been made available for 37 of its U.S. stores. As a way to help pave a path toward sustainable living, the company has brought back the initiative that was launched late last year.
How does it work?
You start by filling out a form on IKEA’s website in order to receive an emailed quote of the buyback value for your furniture. Customers are asked to bring a copy of their quote, buyback number, and fully assembled furniture to your participating IKEA store where an employee will assess the furniture’s buyback value.
When you buyback, you will get store credit and your furniture gets a second life in the As-Is department.
What are the buyback requirements?
According to IKEA, the following categories of products are not currently eligible for the furniture buy-back service:
- Non-IKEA products
- Home furnishing accessories including lighting and textiles
- Add-on units and componentry
- Products that have been used outside including outdoor furniture
- Mattresses and bad textiles (such as blankets and mattress toppers)
- Kitchens including bench tops, cabinets, and fronts
- Modular wardrobes and accessories
- Electrical appliances and products
- Chests of drawers
- “Hacked,” modified or painted products
- Non-assembled products
- Market Hall products (including small kitchen goods, art, rugs, and picture frames)
- Upholstered or leather products
- Sofas or armchairs
- Plants
- Items containing glass (including mirrors)
- Children’s and baby products (such as cribs, mattresses, and change tables)
- Beds and bed frames
The retailer said on its website that large quantities and commercially used items are exempt.
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https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/ikea-will-pay-you-to-return-old-furniture-at-select-stores/
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Gear Energy Ltd. (TSE:GXE – Get Rating) passed above its 50 day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a 50 day moving average of C$1.50 and traded as high as C$1.62. Gear Energy shares last traded at C$1.62, with a volume of 2,587,205 shares changing hands.
A number of research firms have issued reports on GXE. Stifel Firstegy downgraded shares of Gear Energy from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, February 18th. Stifel Nicolaus downgraded shares of Gear Energy to a “hold” rating and set a C$1.60 price target for the company. in a report on Tuesday, February 22nd.
The stock’s fifty day moving average price is C$1.51 and its two-hundred day moving average price is C$1.11. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 13.24, a quick ratio of 0.57 and a current ratio of 1.03. The company has a market cap of C$416.27 million and a P/E ratio of 5.16.
Gear Energy Company Profile (TSE:GXE)
Gear Energy Ltd., an exploration and production company, acquires, develops, and holds interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and assets in Canada. Its oil-focused operations are located in three core areas, including Lloydminster heavy oil, Central Alberta light/medium oil, and Southeast Saskatchewan light oil.
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https://www.themarketsdaily.com/2022/03/31/gear-energy-tsegxe-shares-cross-above-fifty-day-moving-average-of-1-50.html
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Falcons sign former Lions safety Marlowe to 1-year contract
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) - Safety Dean Marlowe, who set a career high with 67 tackles while starting nine games for Detroit in 2021, has signed a one-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons.
The Falcons announced the signing on Thursday.
Marlowe, 29, began his career by playing three seasons with Carolina before two seasons with Buffalo.
Marlowe may compete with second-year player Richie Grant, a second-round draft pick in 2021, for a starting job.
Marlowe had two interceptions with Buffalo in 2020. He had a fumble recovery and two passes defensed with the Lions last season.
The Falcons have made their secondary a focus in free agency. They also signed former Raiders cornerback Casey Hayward and former Chicago cornerback Teez Tabor.
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Last Sunday, the Mexican team did their homework and beat Honduras 1-0 at home. With a win in his pocket, he was one step away from securing his qualification for Qatar 2022, but he still hasn’t achieved it and It can still fall into repechage if there is a series of consequences. What do you need to go straight into the World Cup?
The victory on the last day allowed Mexico to hold at least one spot in the repechage. El Trio was third with 25 points, as were the United States, second by goal difference. To downvote everyone and there is already qualified Canada. But the fourth, the Repechage Zone, is Costa Rica, Those who still have hope to annoy their rivals and get one of the last available tickets.
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Bravo Releases RHOA Season 14 Trailer But NeNe, Porsha & Phaedra Trend Instead!
Bravo dropped the Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 14 trailer Wednesday, which featured a surprise appearance from former RHOA husband, Apollo Nida.
A snippet of the conversation between returning “Housewife” Shereé Whitfield and Apollo was featured—but the unexpected exchange was all but forgotten after viewers took to social media to sound off about the preview.
Shereé has an open conversation about life after prison with the ex of her former co-star, Phaedra Parks, in the teaser.
“When the guys come home [after being incarcerated], they just s–t all over the woman,” Apollo says in the clip.
Apollo, 43, was hit with an eight-year prison sentence in July 2014, after pleading guilty to federal fraud crimes, including conspiring to commit mail, wire, and bank fraud.
Bravo hoped to reel in viewers with the colorful teaser — but viewers veered social media in a different direction, kicking off a trend toward former RHOA stars, NeNe Leakes, Porsha Williams, and Phaedra Parks.
Season 14 will feature returning cast members, Kenya Moore, Drew Sidora, Marlo Hampton, and Kandi Burruss. RHOA original, Shereé Whitflield, will make a comeback, and newcomer, Sanya Ross-Richards, will make her debut.
Watch the RHOA Season 14 trailer below!
Fans took to Twitter to sound off about the upcoming season and rip into Bravo for not inviting NeNe Leakes and Phaedra Parks back. Porsha Williams walked away from the show at the conclusion of Season 13, after scoring a spinoff show.
One fan simply stated—”Without Nene, Phaedra, and Porsha no renewal is needed. Periodt.”
Another noted—“This season of #RHOA looks no Porsha, no NeNe, & no bringing back Phaedra … it really is the end…”
One Twitter user wrote—“Not a fan of the direction this show is going. With the absence of #Nene #Phaedra and #Porsha it’s clear they’re desperate to keep the ratings up. It’s giving me overproduced Basketball Wives/Love and Hip Hop vibes. I’ll pass on this season.”
Another tweeted— This #RHOA trailer looks like Love & Hip Hop trailer. For RHOA to reclaim the top spot, the real stars need to come back. Porsha kept the girls on their toes, even though Cynthia was just there, she is missed, Phaedra and Nene need to bring back the ratings.”
One fan said—“Bravo losing Porsha, Nene & Phaedra was the beginning to the end of this show. You definitely can feel their presence being missing. No shade against the other girls, but they can’t carry this show. All the heavy hitters left. Cause this new season looks stale & stiff chi..”
One commenter posted his dream RHOA cast—which included several original Bravo peaches.
“My #RHOA dream cast…Porsha, Kenya, Nene, Phaedra, Kandi, Sheree, Marlo, Kim Z, & Lisa Wu.
Another viewer pointed out—“All thes interviews asking Kandi questions this past week we’re about Porsha, Nene & Phaedra – That tells you everything you need to know. Her show does not interest people. If you want RHOA to be back on top. You know what needs to be done.”
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 14 premieres Sunday, May 1, at 8 pm, ET, on Bravo.
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DENVER, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aphelion Aerospace, based in Denver, Colorado is establishing itself as a one-stop-shop for low-cost small satellite integration and on-demand launch operations from practically anywhere around the world. Aphelion announced today that it has received significant investment from strategic investors including The Mercury Group, Founder Advisors, and Richtr Financial Studio. These investments are part of Aphelion's Seed round which the company is running in parallel with their equity crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine.
Aphelion CEO Miguel Ayala and CTO Matthew Travis indicate that these investments will help them continue pushing forward with the development of their suborbital launch vehicle technology demonstrator. They plan to conduct low-altitude suborbital demonstration launches by the end of the year to prove out their green non-toxic, non-cryogenic propulsion technology in flight.
Based on the caliber and background of their board advisors and investors, it is clear that the Aphelion team is positioning to become a strong player in the space industry. Last year, Aphelion announced that Edward Mango, former Program Manager of the NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Program had joined their board of advisors. Mr. Mango is one of the key NASA leaders behind the success of SpaceX. Aphelion also announced that Kevin Rice, former Director of Business Management at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works had joined their board of advisors. Mr. Rice practically wrote the book on business management for NASA. In addition, Aphelion announced that Geoff Brim, former VP of Product Management at Deutsche Telekom had joined their board of advisors. Mr. Brim evangelized digital transformation, data science, artificial intelligence, and robotics at Deutsche Telekom.
Now come Aphelion's visionary investors. Ben West of The Mercury Group is a US Air Force veteran. Before his years in finance, Ben was an F117A and F16 Crew Chief. He is well aware that military fighter jets use hydrazine in their emergency power units. He knows very well that hydrazine is extremely toxic and thus costly and slow to deal with. He is also aware that other uses of hydrazine include spacecraft propulsion. Hearing that Aphelion had developed a propulsion technology that could essentially replace anything hydrazine powered was music to his ears. Ben feels excited to back Aphelion with investment and plans to continue supporting Aphelion along its journey to bring this new technology to market.
Steven Williams, of Founder Advisors advises Aphelion on market strategy. Along with Steven, the Founder Advisors team provides corporate and business strategy advisory to Aphelion. They are composed of accomplished aerospace and tech entrepreneurs and executives like Steven. Some have spent years in launch vehicle development at companies such as Lockheed Martin. These guys truly understand and value the business model that Aphelion is structuring for bundled small satellite integration and launch services.
James Graham, CEO of Richtr Financial Studio, is an ardent supporter of Aphelion's possibilities. Richtr Financial Studio supports Aphelion with financial and accounting services. They are a powerhouse for startups that are poised for exponential growth.
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Prosecutor seeks end to Khashoggi murder trial in Turkey, requests transfer to Saudi Arabia
The Turkish prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudi nationals charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request Thursday that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, raising fears of a possible coverup.
The panel of judges made no ruling on the prosecutor’s request but said a letter would be sent to Turkey’s Justice Ministry seeking its opinion on the possible transfer of the file to Saudi judicial authorities, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The trial was adjourned until April 7.
The development comes as Turkey has been trying to normalize its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which hit an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly October 2018 killing. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview on Thursday that Saudi authorities were more cooperative on judicial issues with Turkey, but did not elaborate.
In arguing for the transfer, the prosecutor told the court that the Saudi chief public prosecutor’s office requested the Turkish proceedings be transferred to the kingdom in a letter dated March 13, and that international warrants issued by Ankara against the defendants be lifted, according to the private DHA news agency.
The prosecutor said that because the arrest warrants cannot be executed and defense statements cannot be taken, the case would remain inconclusive in Turkey.
Amnesty International urged Turkey to press ahead with the trial, saying if it is transferred to Saudi Arabia, Turkey will be “knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up.”
Moving Khashoggi’s trial to Saudi Arabia would provide a diplomatic resolution to a dispute that represented the wider troubles between Ankara and the kingdom since the 2011 Arab Spring.
Turkey under Erdogan supported Islamists as the uprisings took hold, while Saudi Arabia and its ally the United Arab Emirates sought to suppress such movements for fear of facing challenges to their autocratic governments. Meanwhile, Turkey sided with Qatar in a diplomatic dispute that saw Doha boycotted by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Since then-President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, the Gulf Arab states have set aside — but not fully resolved — the Qatar dispute. Meanwhile, Turkey under Erdogan has faced a rapid devaluation of its lira currency over his refusal to hike interest rates. Bilateral trade to the kingdom and the UAE, a major transshipment point for the world economy, also collapsed.
Since the start of 2022, Erdogan has sought to improve those ties, including making his first visit to the UAE in nearly a decade. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after fighting through the coronavirus pandemic’s economic effects, facing a grinding war in Yemen and struggling with renewed tensions with Iran, also want to resolve the outstanding feud.
Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2, 2018, after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking documents that would allow him to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish national who was waiting outside the building. He never emerged.
Turkish officials allege that the Saudi national, who was a United States resident, was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw inside the consulate. His body has not been found. Prior to his killing, Khashoggi had written critically of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in columns for the Washington Post.
Turkish authorities said he was killed by a team of Saudi agents. Those on trial in absentia include two former aides of the prince.
Saudi officials initially offered conflicting accounts concerning the killing, including claims that Khashoggi had left the consulate building unharmed. But amid mounting international pressure, they stated that Khashoggi’s death was a tragic accident, with the meeting unexpectedly turning violent.
Turkey decided to try the defendants in absentia after Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands for their extradition.
The slaying had sparked international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Western intelligence agencies, as well as the U.S. Congress, have said that an operation of this magnitude could not have happened without his knowledge.
In urging Turkey to proceed with the trial, Amnesty International said Ankara would be complicit in a coverup if it grants the Saudi request for a transfer.
“If the prosecutor’s request is granted, then instead of prosecuting and shedding light on a murder that was committed on its territory ... Turkey will be knowingly and willingly sending the case to a place where it will be covered up,” said Tarik Beyhan, Amnesty’s campaign director for Turkey.
Beyhan said he didn’t want to “think about the possibility” that the prosecutor’s request may be related to the improving ties between Riyadh and Ankara.
“Basic human rights ... should not be made the subject of political negotiations,” he said. “A murder cannot be covered up to fix relations.”
Some of the men were put on trial in Riyadh behind closed doors. A Saudi court issued a final verdict in 2020 that sentenced five mid-level officials and operatives to 20-year jail terms. The court had originally ordered the death penalty, but reduced the punishment after Khashoggi’s son Salah, who lives in Saudi Arabia, announced that he forgave the defendants. Three others were sentenced to lesser jail terms.
On Thursday, Khashoggi's fiancee, Cengiz, appeared to criticize the prosecutor’s request in a tweet in English. “It is an exemplary situation in terms of showing the dilemma facing humanity in the modern era,” she wrote. “Which of the two will we choose? To want to live like a virtuous human being or to build a life by holding material interests above all kinds of values.”
She did not respond to a request for comment.
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Associated Press Writer Jon Gambrell contributed from Dubai.
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https://www.wvtm13.com/article/prosecutor-seeks-end-to-khashoggi-murder-trial/39603067
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A medical student and transgender rights activist in North Carolina appeared to suggest she hurt a patient who laughed at her pronoun pin, but has since deleted the online post.
Student Kychelle Del Rosario of Wake Forest University’s School of Medicine claimed she missed the individual’s vein while drawing blood, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
“I had a patient I was doing a blood draw on see my pronoun pin and loudly laugh to the staff ‘She/Her? Well of course it is! What other pronouns even are there? It?’ I missed his vein so he had to get stuck twice,” Del Rosario’s post read.
Trans rights activist brags about deliberately injuring patient who mocked her pronoun badge https://t.co/Xq0lxFXRRd
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) March 31, 2022
Social media profile Libs of Tik Tok shared a screenshot of the tweet and followers voiced their opinions.
A @wakeforestmed 4th year medical student says she abused a patient because he laughed at her pronoun pin. She has since deleted her account. pic.twitter.com/2m3DsjTFZx
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 29, 2022
“People can wear whatever pins they want. However, people also have the right to find it stupid, and if mere poking fun at said pin is enough to cause you to injure a patient then you’re not cut out to practice medicine in any form,” one person wrote.
“First DO NO HARM or don’t go into medicine, she/her,” another commented.
The school said it was aware of what happened and was addressing the issue with the student involved, the Mail article continued, noting Del Rosario had apparently advocated for the trans community in the past:
Last year, she published an essay arguing against the so-called Bathroom Bill that sought to require individuals to use public restrooms corresponding to their gender assigned at birth.
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She also shared how she was a leader for Safe Zone in Medicine, which she explained as being ‘an organization run by health care trainees whose goal is to educate health professionals about the needs and disparities in LGBTQ+ healthcare.’
The young woman appeared to have deleted her social media accounts but kept a LinkedIn profile.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is expected to publicly support Transgender Day of Visibility and introduce a universal gender marking.
“AP reports fresh measures aimed at opening federal government to transgender people include a new ‘X’ gender marker on U.S. passport applications beginning on April 11,” according to Breitbart News.
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https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2022/03/31/med-student-trans-activist-implies-she-hurt-patient-mocking-pronoun-pin/
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Flamingo (FLM) traded 4.9% lower against the US dollar during the 1 day period ending at 17:00 PM ET on March 31st. Over the last seven days, Flamingo has traded up 10.9% against the US dollar. One Flamingo coin can now be purchased for $0.24 or 0.00000527 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Flamingo has a market cap of $75.31 million and $12.54 million worth of Flamingo was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Tether (USDT) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002185 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded down 5.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001787 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded down 4.4% against the dollar and now trades at $21.50 or 0.00046964 BTC.
- Shiba Inu (SHIB) traded 6.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Wrapped TRON (WTRX) traded 5.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0755 or 0.00000165 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded 3.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $3,291.96 or 0.07192310 BTC.
- EarnX (EARNX) traded 396,248.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0008 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded 3.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $45,758.36 or 0.99973274 BTC.
- stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3,479.19 or 0.06807369 BTC.
- Filecoin (FIL) traded 4.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $24.71 or 0.00053989 BTC.
About Flamingo
According to CryptoCompare, “Flamingo is an interoperable, full-stack decentralized finance protocol built on the Neo blockchain. Flamingo is comprised of five main components, including Wrapper – a crosschain asset gateway, Swap – an on-chain liquidity provider, Vault – a one-stop asset manager, Perp – an AMM-based perpetual contract trading platform, and also DAO – a decentralized governance mechanism. FLM is the governance token of Flamingo and will be 100% distributed to the community based on participation. The Flamingo project is incubated by Neo Global Development (NGD), underscoring Neo's vision to build the Smart Economy, of which decentralized finance is a crucial component. NGD will facilitate the early-stage development of the Flamingo project, and the governance mechanism will gradually transit from Proof-of-Authority (POA) to DAO. The Flamingo project will eventually run by the community. “
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| 2022-04-01T00:01:57Z
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Dog: Channing Tatum's Surprise Hit Comes To Blu-ray On May 10
Dog, the surprise hit of the winter box office, is coming home on Blu-ray on May 10th. I can honestly say that nobody expected Dog to not only score more than $50 million at the box office but hold as well as it did across basically the whole first part of the year. To date, it has scored $70 million worldwide on a budget of $15 million. Not too bad at all. Starring Channing Tatum, Q'orianka Kilcher, Jane Adams, Kevin Nash, and Cayden Boyd, the release will be bare-bones, with no added special features on the disc as of now. I hate when they do that. Check out the cover down below.
Dog Is Scoring Big With Audiences
"Dog is a buddy comedy that follows the misadventures of two former Army Rangers paired against their will on the road trip of a lifetime. Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) and Lulu (a Belgian Malinois dog) buckle into a 1984 Ford Bronco and race down the Pacific Coast in hopes of making it to a fellow soldier's funeral on time. Along the way, they'll drive each other completely crazy, break a small handful of laws, narrowly evade death, and learn to let down their guards in order to have a fighting chance of finding happiness.
From MGM in association with FilmNation Entertainment, Dog is directed by Reid Carolin & Channing Tatum in their directorial debut, from a screenplay by Carolin and story by Carolin and Brett Rodriguez. In addition to Tatum, the film stars Jane Adams ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), Kevin Nash ("Magic Mike"), Q'orianka Kilcher (TV's "Yellowstone"), Ethan Suplee ("Remember the Titans"), Emmy Raver-Lampman (TV's "The Umbrella Academy"), and Nicole LaLiberte (TV's "Dexter"). Gregory Jacobs, Peter Kiernan, and Brett Rodriguez are producers, with Betsy Danbury and Ken Meyer serving as executive producers."
Technical Specs on the disc:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track
- Optional English SDH and Latin Spanish subtitles for the main feature
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https://bleedingcool.com/movies/dog-channing-tatum-blu-ray-may/
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The NFL approved a rule change on Tuesday which will ensure both teams get at least one possession when playing in an overtime game during the playoffs.
It comes after the dramatic ending to the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills game in the playoffs last season, with the Chiefs winning 42-36 after winning the coin toss and scoring a touchdown with the first possession, therefore ending the game with the Bills never getting an opportunity to reply.
The ending of the game in the AFC Divisional Round shone a light on the rule, with some fans calling it the "worst rule in sports."
And commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL "always listen to the fans -- that's an important thing."
"We're always looking to improve and I think what really drove the decision was the database, ultimately, and looking at the facts and what's happened," Goodell said after the rule change on Tuesday.
"Where we saw that most having an influence, I think, was 12 games in the postseason that have been in overtime, seven of which were won on the first possession. When you see that, that's the type of thing that I think our coaches and everyone looked at -- this is an issue in the postseason we should deal with."
Twenty-nine of the 32 teams in the league voted in favor of the rule change, according to NFL Network reporter Ian Rapoport.
The traditional sudden-death rules will still apply for all regular season games.
Previously, the team that received the opening kickoff in overtime would win the game if they scored a touchdown on their first possession. With the approved rule change on Tuesday, both teams are guaranteed an opportunity to possess the ball at least once during the extra period, unless the team kicking off forces a safety on the receiving team's initial possession.
According to the NFL Research, since 2010, there have been 12 overtime playoff games, with the team that won the coin toss winning in 10 of those 12 meetings. Seven of those 10 wins came on a sudden-death opening-drive touchdown.
The NFL's overtime rules now are much more similar to college football's, which many argued were fairer than the NFL's previous rules.
In college football, each team -- regardless of who wins the overtime coin toss -- gets a chance to go on offense from the other's 25 yard-line in the first overtime.
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CNN's Harry Enten found that whereas, previously in the NFL, teams hoped to win the coin toss and win the game at the first time of asking, in the collegiate game, the team that wins the toss usually decides to go on defense first because they will know if the other team scored a touchdown, a field goal or failed to score. Based on that, the team that goes second can choose to be more or less aggressive when they get on offense.
According to data from Oklahoma State's Rick Wilson, a professor at the Spears School of Business, and through research of box scores from Sports Reference, there have been nearly 300 overtime games involving Division I Football Bowl Subdivision teams from 2013-2021.
The team that received the ball second won 49.7% of the time since 2013, or right about 50% of the time.
Now, it seems, much like college football, the NFL's overtime games will be more fair affairs.
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Round hamburgers to make the kids happy
Dear Heloise: My kids love it when their hamburger patties are round and not misshaped. Frankly, so do I. I take a large can of peaches and clean the bottom, then press it into the hamburger meat. It leaves an impression, which I cut around, and I have a nice round...
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – A man who was captured by U.S. Border Patrol Agents near Cesar Chavez/Loop375 after trying to cross the Rio Grande in his truck, has been identified by law enforcement.
31-year-old Patricio Sabas Gomez was wanted in the September 30, 2021 shooting death of 41-year-old Michael Martinez in Wichita, Kansas.
Police say the shooting was a result of a botched drug deal, outside a Wichita hotel. Gomez and his alleged accomplice, Shae Roberts, fled the area following the shooting. Roberts was later captured and was charged with First-Degree Murder and Attempted Distribution of meth.
According to Border Patrol officials, on Monday, March 28, Gomez attempted to enter the U.S. illegally by driving his pickup truck across the Rio Grande from Juarez.
Gomez is being held without bond in the El Paso County Detention Center, awaiting extradition to Kansas to face charges.
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| 2022-04-01T00:01:58Z
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Volunteers are key part to Club Championship's success
Over 500 volunteers working this year's event
Over 500 volunteers working this year's event
Over 500 volunteers working this year's event
The Club Car Championship is now in its fifth year at the Deer Creek Course at the Landings.
And during that time, volunteers have played a key role in the success of the tournament.
“If somebody wants to volunteer, we have lots and lots of moving parts," said Syd Britt, director of course operations.
And so far, there are lots of volunteers to help with those moving parts.
After seeing a greatly reduced number of volunteers the last two years because of the pandemic, the Club Car Championship is back up to over 500 for this year’s event.
“The first two years we almost topped 700 volunteers," Britt said. "Then, of course, the tournaments that we did in 2020 and 2021 a lot of people were not volunteering because of COVID and now people are back to volunteering. Its our fifth tournament and it’s pretty exciting, we’re glad to be out here.
“It feels great," said MJ Walden, volunteer, and Marshal leader. "We’re not wearing masks and people are coming back to view the golfers up close and personal and it just feels wonderful to be out in this air at this lovely place.”
Volunteering also takes dedication, as in the case of some of those answering a 5:30 a.m. call for their daily duties.
“We had people here doing on-site parking of the players as well as cart shuttle drivers to pick up the caddies as they’re parking down Gray Heron and you’ve got to want to get up at 5:30 in the morning," Britt said.
But for most of those volunteers, it’s just having a passion for this tournament.
“I just love doing this out here and I love seeing it up close and personal," Walden said. "The players and the folks are so wonderful and just keep everybody safe and watching some good golf.”
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https://www.wjcl.com/article/volunteers-are-key-part-to-club-championships-success/39602743
| 2022-04-01T00:01:58Z
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Washington [US], April 1 (ANI): After the Taliban banned Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts from terrestrial television, the US government-funded news agency has launched a 24/7 direct-to-home satellite-delivered television channel for Afghanistan, local media reported.
The channel carries uncensored news and information in both the Pashto and Dari languages of the country, according to Voice of America (VOA).
VOA's programs were ordered off affiliated television stations in Afghanistan effective on March 27, as part of a broad ban on content regarded as undermining Taliban policies, including prohibiting women from anchoring newscasts with men.
VOA's new TV stream, identified as "VOA Afghanistan," is on the Yahsat Y-1A satellite (52.2 degrees East), Transponder 12 (downlink frequency 11.938 GHz), Channel 469. The Yahsat satellite is Afghanistan's most popular platform, ensuring the Afghan audience will have access to VOA's programming despite the Taliban censorship, reported VOA.
"Afghanistan is now one of the most repressive media markets in the world," said Acting VOA Director Yolanda Lopez.
"Despite the Taliban's attempt to end press freedom, VOA News stands by its Afghan audience with credible and authoritative news and information," Lopez added.
The new VOA Afghanistan satellite stream includes its popular "TV Ashna" newscasts, its women's show "Etesal," viewer call-in programming, and programming from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Azadi radio. Additional programming is planned, including entertainment shows to fill a void in Afghanistan, where local channels cannot air music programs, reported VOA.
It further reported that the VOA satellite channel has been in development since August, before the fall of Afghanistan's elected government. The channel is also accessible on YouTube and on VOA's Pashto and Dari language websites.
Domestic and international critics say media and freedom of speech have worsened under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
Afghan journalists have been repeatedly detained and subjected to violence by security forces. In December, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released a survey, showing that at least 40 per cent of Afghan media outlets have disappeared and more than 80 per cent of women journalists lost their jobs since the Taliban takeover of the country.
Hundreds of journalists have also left Afghanistan since August for fear of Taliban reprisals or because of problems associated with practising their profession under the new rulers.
More than 6,400 journalists and media employees have lost their jobs since August 15 when the Taliban seized control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to the RSF survey. (ANI)
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SILVER SPRING, Md., March 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aziyo Biologics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AZYO), a commercial-stage regenerative medicine company focused on creating the next generation of differentiated products and improving outcomes in patients undergoing surgery, today announced that it will be participating in the Lytham Partners Spring 2022 Investor Conference taking place virtually on April 4-7, 2022.
The Company’s webcast presentation will be available for viewing at 11:00am ET on Monday, April 4, 2022, on the Company’s website at www.aziyo.com. The webcast will also be archived and available for replay.
Management will be participating in virtual one-on-one meetings throughout the event. To arrange a meeting with management, please contact Lytham Partners at 1×1@lythampartners.com or register at www.lythampartners.com/spring2022invreg.
About Aziyo Biologics
Aziyo Biologics is a commercial-stage regenerative medicine company focused on creating the next generation of differentiated products and improving outcomes in patients undergoing surgery, concentrating on patients receiving implantable medical devices. Since its founding in 2015, the Company has created a portfolio of commercial-stage products used in cardiovascular, orthopedic, and reconstructive specialties. For more information, visit www.Aziyo.com.
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MAINE, USA — Police departments across the state are rolling out new requirements regarding how they interact with people who are unhoused who commit minor crimes.
Under a new law, Title 17-A of the Maine criminal code, Maine police forces are required to attempt diversion methods instead of arrest when encountering a person who is experiencing homelessness and is accused of committing one of five minor crimes: trespassing, disorderly conduct, drug possession, urinating in public, and public drinking.
The law passed through the legislature on July 1, 2021, but departments had until March 1, 2022 to write "homelessness crisis protocols" and until April 1 to train staff on the protocols.
Bangor Sgt. Wade Betters said his department has used similar tactics for years and will work to enforce the law fairly for everyone.
"That’s not to say that we can’t make an arrest or issue a ticket, but every situation is different," he said Thursday during an interview outside Bangor Police Department headquarters. "But, again, this law is designed to make it so all law enforcement statewide would understand that the preferred method would be to divert from the criminal justice system."
Betters showed NEWS CENTER Maine a card each officer carries with them, filled with addresses and phone numbers for local and state mental health and housing resources.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey was required by the law to write a protocol by Jan. 1 as an example for local departments to use as a template if they desired.
Each police force must have a protocol in place, but those protocols may have desired outcomes instead of ironclad decisions to be made during each encounter.
Under the law, it could be possible for two people in the same city to commit the same crime, where an unhoused person being offered resources and sent on their way but a housed person could be arrested.
Maine State Police Maj. Brian Scott testified on the bill on May 14, as it was debated in the legislature's criminal justice and public safety committee. He wrote that he spoke neither in favor of nor against the bill and said the intent of the law is noble but could potentially lead to people taking advantage of the law or lead to punishing housed people more harshly than others.
The bill's main sponsor, Rep. Victoria Morales, D-South Portland, testified in the same hearing to the law's necessity.
"The majority of the people who enter the doors of Maine jails and prisons today are there because they have experienced trauma, violence, poverty, addiction, disease, oftentimes starting from the day of their birth," Morales told the committee. "We must reject the old value construct that places less value on certain people, and instead maintain that all people have value."
Boyd Kronholm from the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter said the police there have had diversion tactics for years. While there’s some grey area in this new law, for him it’s all about a mindset of what’s best for each human involved.
"We need to spend time with the individual, find out what’s caused you to end up in the situation you’re in and what can we do with some natural supports to strengthen, to prevent that from happening, or to solve that issue," Kronholm said.
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Foreign Minister Marise Payne has appointed Harinder Sidhu as Australia's next High Commissioner to New Zealand.
Ms Sidhu is a career diplomat who has served in Russia, India, and Syria and replaces Patricia Forsythe in the role, who left this week.
She inherits a strong trans-Tasman relationship underpinned by people-to-people links, but increasingly strained in recent years.
New Zealand governments have decried the thousands of deportations from Australia, and most vociferously those made on character grounds rather than serious criminality.
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The Australian and New Zealand governments have also traded barbs over contrasting policies to China, COVID-19 border restrictions and Australia's citizenship-stripping practices of dual nationals.
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The Trade Desk, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD – Get Rating) CFO Blake Jeffrey Grayson sold 6,084 shares of Trade Desk stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $72.50, for a total value of $441,090.00. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website.
Blake Jeffrey Grayson also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Wednesday, February 16th, Blake Jeffrey Grayson sold 9,633 shares of Trade Desk stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $74.05, for a total value of $713,323.65.
- On Tuesday, January 18th, Blake Jeffrey Grayson sold 7,836 shares of Trade Desk stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $72.67, for a total value of $569,442.12.
TTD traded down $2.38 on Thursday, hitting $69.25. 3,066,180 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 6,860,651. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $70.75 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $79.52. The Trade Desk, Inc. has a 52 week low of $46.71 and a 52 week high of $114.09. The firm has a market capitalization of $33.57 billion, a PE ratio of 251.33, a P/E/G ratio of 15.31 and a beta of 2.22.
Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of TTD. MUFG Americas Holdings Corp acquired a new position in shares of Trade Desk during the 4th quarter worth about $26,000. Selective Wealth Management Inc. bought a new stake in Trade Desk in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Curi Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in Trade Desk in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. bought a new stake in Trade Desk in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Finally, Parkside Financial Bank & Trust raised its position in Trade Desk by 4,140.0% during the third quarter. Parkside Financial Bank & Trust now owns 424 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $29,000 after acquiring an additional 414 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 59.84% of the company’s stock.
TTD has been the subject of several analyst reports. Oppenheimer lowered their target price on Trade Desk from $100.00 to $90.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, February 17th. Needham & Company LLC lifted their target price on shares of Trade Desk from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, December 2nd. Guggenheim began coverage on shares of Trade Desk in a report on Wednesday, March 2nd. They issued a “buy” rating and a $108.00 target price on the stock. Susquehanna Bancshares boosted their price objective on shares of Trade Desk from $115.00 to $125.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 17th. Finally, Benchmark started coverage on shares of Trade Desk in a research note on Tuesday, March 1st. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and fourteen have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Trade Desk currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $100.50.
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Planning underway for a Muslim school, community centre in Brant County
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BRANTFORD A new community centre and school to serve the area’s growing Muslim population is years away from becoming a reality, says Anwar Dost.
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“We’re planning for the future,” Dost, a past president and founding member of the Muslim Association of Brantford, said in an interview. “In the last three years, the Muslim population has tripled in Brant County and the surrounding area.”
He cited the Brantford mosque on Greenwich Street as one reason for the increase.
He noted that many of those who have moved into the area are professionals who are settling in Paris. In addition to a mosque, they want a school for their children, he said.
“They’re coming into the area and they’re looking for a kindergarten to Grade 8 school where their children can learn the foundations of Islam,” said Dost, a pharmacist who owns the CenPro Pharmacy on Brant Avenue in Brantford.
The project is proposed for a two-hectare property in Brant County on Greens Road, which runs off of Oakhill Road, near the Brantford municipal airport. The property is being donated by Dost, his wife, Dr. Ismat Dost, and his business partner, Mohammed Rana.
Dost said the local plan is modelled on the Islamic Centre of Cambridge, which includes a school, which serves 200 children, gymnasium, community centre and mosque. The proposed local centre also would include a daycare centre and seniors’ facility, he said. But the mosque would remain on Greenwich Street
Between 450 and 500 people from Brantford, Brant and Norfolk counties now attend Friday afternoon prayers at the mosque.
Mazher Latif, the association’s secretary, said the school would offer the same curriculum as provincial public schools. And the centre would operate as a non-profit, he said.
Brant officials have been made aware of the plan but no formal applications have been submitted.
Dost said it likely will take five to six years to get all approvals and plans in place.
The Muslim association on Sunday officially opened a community centre for its members in a strip mall at 627 Park Rd. N. in Brantford.
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EU readying new Russia sanctions, may retaliate over rouble payments for gas
Sources within the EU informed Reuters that the European Commission is getting ready new sanctions in opposition to Russia over Russia’s invasion Ukraine. The magnitude of those new measures will depend upon Moscow’s stance relating to fuel funds in roubles.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said that he would love “unfriendly” nations (together with EU states) to pay their fuel payments utilizing roubles. This request was rejected by Western nations.
Two sources claimed that the brand new EU sanctions package deal could possibly be out there as quickly as subsequent week.
They stated that the manager Commission is at present consulting with EU governments to develop a “compliance program”. This would implement the settlement reached by European leaders at a summit final Thursday about ensuring current sanctions should not bypassed, significantly these focusing on blacklisted individuals.
Officials repeatedly said that sanctions in opposition to oligarchs could be circumvented by members of the family, cryptocurrencies and trusts in offshore jurisdictions.
Other EU sanctions are tougher, if doable, to keep away from. The EU has additionally imposed different sanctions, together with the freezing of Russian property, exclusion of Russian banks of the SWIFT banking system and a ban on EU firms exporting excessive tech merchandise to Russia.
Although the ultimate proposal continues to be being mentioned, sources indicated that rather more extreme sanctions could possibly be included to the brand new package deal if Putin insists on rouble funds for fuel provide. The EU imports 40% of its fuel from Russia.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin said that funds in rubles could be made regularly and never after the March 31 deadline set by Putin.
Sources throughout the EU stated that the EU’s doable response would depend upon Moscow’s timing and particulars relating to fuel funds.
A consultant of the euro zone informed Reuters that finance ministers from the euro zone had been prone to talk about Monday how you can retaliate if Putin continues along with his threats on rouble funds.
According to a fifth EU supply, if Putin was true to his statements on rouble funds it could lead on Russia to successfully ban its pure fuel exports.
Because of Russia’s dependence on the EU, it has not but banned any Russian fossil gasoline imports.
A ban on coal was solely included in a listing that could possibly be sanctioned earlier this 12 months. However, it was not added to the sanctions record as a result of Germany struck it down.
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More on IDEX Q4 results
- IDEX Corporation (NYSE:IEX) reported Q4 sales growth of 5% Y/Y to $614.1M and orders of $610.3M (+1% Y/Y).
- Fluid & Metering Technologies sales $237.21M (+6.8% Y/Y); Adj. operating margin of 29.1% up by 70 bps; and Adj. EBITDA margin of 31.3% up by 50 bps.
- Health & Science Technologies sales $225.5M (+8% Y/Y); Adj. operating margin 23.4% up by 110 bps; and Adj. EBITDA 27.8% down by 10 bps.
- Fire & Safety/Diversified Products sales $151.71M (-2% Y/Y); Adj. operating margin 26.5% flat Y/Y; and Adj. EBITDA 28.9% up by 30 bps.
- Q4 Gross margin expanded by 10 bps to 44.6%; operating margin declined by 38 bps to 22.7%; and Adj. operating margin improved by 120 bps to 23.3%.
- Q4 Adj. EBITDA increased 8.5% Y/Y to $162.01M and margin improved by 90 bps to 26.4%.
- Company repurchased 917k shares of common stock for $122M during the quarter.
- Free cash flow for the quarter was $137.36M, compared to $120.37M a year ago.
- 1Q19 Guidance: EPS $1.35 to $1.38.
- FY19 Guidance: EPS $5.60 to $5.80; Company projected 4% to 5% organic revenue growth.
- Previously: IDEX beats by $0.04, misses on revenue (Jan. 29)
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Shares of Philip Morris International Inc.
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were unchanged Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
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falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. Philip Morris International Inc. closed $18.54 short of its 52-week high ($112.48), which the company achieved on February 18th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Altria Group Inc.
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rose 0.38% to $52.25, British American Tobacco PLC ADR
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fell 1.15% to $42.16, and Imperial Brands PLC ADR
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fell 1.69% to $21.47. Trading volume (6.6 M) remained 446,101 below its 50-day average volume of 7.0 M.
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This round of independent ATT&CK Evaluations for enterprise cybersecurity solutions emulated two sophisticated threat groups, Wizard Spider and Sandworm.
Wizard Spider is a financially motivated criminal group that has been conducting ransomware campaigns since August 2018 against a variety of organizations, ranging from major corporations to hospitals. Sandworm is a destructive Russian threat group that is known for launching the NotPetya ransomware attacks that wreaked havoc in 2017.
These two threat actors were chosen based on their complexity, relevancy to customer organizations, and how well MITRE Engenuity’s staff can fittingly emulate the adversary for a real-world test that organizations can trust.
Delivering the highest visibility of threats
Sophos is proud to share that Intercept X demonstrated a world-class ability to prevent and detect advanced attacks, including Wizard Spider and Sandworm.
“The challenge of protecting your organization against real-world cyberthreats is a demanding effort in precision and scale. Providing the highest level of context to a defender is key to improving the speed at which you can identify and respond to attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Adversaries continuously adapt and evolve their toolsets and activity to seize new opportunities, evade detection and try to stay one step ahead of security teams. For that reason, we’re pleased to be recognized in the MITRE Engenuity evaluations, which focus on the actual TTPs of two assertive and modern-day attackers,” said Joe Levy, Sophos Chief Technology and Product Officer.
You can view the in-scope techniques used in the evaluation in the ATT&CK Navigator by checking out the layer file we made available here, and Sophos’ results in detecting them here.
Stopping threats faster
“We’re very pleased with the way MITRE’s evaluation showcases the threat detection strength of Sophos Intercept X. Every day, this enables our customers to deter more active attacks earlier in the attack lifecycle, and to reduce the impact of costly threats like ransomware,” adds Levy. Preventing a single ransomware incident, as simulated in the ATT&CK Evaluations, could result in saving millions of dollars, not to mention the potential collateral damage, simply by stopping attacks before they culminate into something more devious.
As President Biden releases a statement that Russian threat groups, like those responsible for Sandworm, may be shifting towards cyber-offensive action against Western organizations and infrastructure, it’s important for organizations to optimize prevention. An important step is to reduce the attack surface, removing opportunities for attackers to breach your organization. Some examples of how Sophos achieves this is by:
- Blocking potentially unwanted applications
- Blocking malicious or suspicious websites based on content or URL rating
- Controlling which applications are allowed to run in the organization
- Controlling which devices are allowed on the organization’s network or able to access cloud assets
- Locking down server configurations in a single click
The next step is to prevent attacks from running, using layered protection technologies to stop both the threats and the tactics attackers use, including:
- Behavioral detection and prevention based on known-adversarial and anomalous activities
- Artificial intelligence (AI) models to assign risk scores to file artifacts, including those never-before-seen
- Behavior-based anti-ransomware protection for both local and remote systems
- Exploit prevention that stops the techniques attackers use, protecting against a broad set of attacks, including those that leverage previously unknown malware
Last year’s Kaseya attack highlights how important the combination of prevention and detection is — by the time the attack was detected, it was too late, and the files were encrypted. Not a single Sophos customer with our next-gen endpoint protection correctly deployed had their files encrypted in that attack.
Minimizing the time to detect and respond
Optimizing prevention like this minimizes time to detect and respond in the face of real-world threats and enables defenders to focus on fewer, more accurate detections.
Sophos Intercept X with XDR, by achieving the highest context rating for the majority of detections in the evaluation, demonstrated how it enables you to streamline the whole investigation and response process. Our intuitive console makes it easy with a rich set of pre-defined, categorized Threat Hunting and Investigation queries in several categories including MITRE ATT&CK oriented.To bring this to life, I’d like to share data from Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR), our 24/7/365 managed detection and response (MDR) service which today serves well over 8,500 Sophos Intercept X customers.
Customers enrolled in our service are seeing mean time to detect (MTTD) attacks under one minute. Enriched investigation techniques result in a mean time to investigate (MTTI) of 25 minutes.
Our human-led investigations leverage the superior detection context identified by MITRE, enabling us to achieve quicker and more accurate response. The result is a mean time to resolution (MTTR) of just 12 minutes, or a total time from detecting the threat to resolving it of just under 38 minutes.
Delivering real-world results
Our goal at Sophos is to help our customers prevent, detect, and respond to security incidents faster, enabling you to achieve better security outcomes.
We are committed to testing Sophos Intercept X with a wide range of leading testing providers like MITRE Engenuity, as well as soliciting reviews from the organizations we protect every day. The results speak for themselves: Sophos consistently delivers industry-leading protection, was named the highest rated and most reviewed vendor in Gartner Peer Insights™ Customer’s Choice for Endpoint Protection Platforms, and was named best Enterprise Endpoint Protection by SE Labs.
To learn more and discuss how we can help with your security challenges, visit our website and speak with a member of the team.
If you need immediate assistance to contain, neutralize, and investigate an active threat, you can contact Sophos Rapid Response for support 24/7.
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The worldwide seafood industry is steeling itself for price hikes, supply disruptions and potential job losses as new rounds of economic sanctions on Russia make key species such as cod and crab harder to come by.
The latest round of U.S. attempts to punish Russia for the invasion of Ukraine includes bans on imports of seafood, alcohol and diamonds. The U.S. is also stripping “most favored nation status” from Russia. Nations around the world are taking similar steps.
Russia is one of the largest producers of seafood in the world, and was the fifth-largest producer of wild-caught fish, according to a 2020 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Russia is not one of the biggest exporters of seafood to the U.S., but it’s a world leader in exports of cod (the preference for fish and chips in the U.S.). It’s also a major supplier of crabs and Alaska pollock, widely used in fast-food sandwiches and processed products like fish sticks.
The impact is likely to be felt globally, as well as in places with working waterfronts. One of those is Maine, where more than $50 million in seafood products from Russia passed through Portland in 2021, according to federal statistics.
“If you’re getting cod from Russia, it’s going to be a problem,” said Glen Libby, an owner of Port Clyde Fresh Catch, a seafood market in Tenants Harbor, Maine. “That’s quite a mess. We’ll see how it turns out.”
Russia exported more than 28 million pounds (12.7 million kilograms) of cod to the U.S. from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2022, according to census data.
The European Union and United Kingdom are both deeply dependent on Russian seafood. And prices of seafood are already spiking in Japan, a major seafood consumer that is limiting its trade with Russia.
In the U.K., where fish and chips are a cultural marker, shop owners and consumers alike are bracing for price surges. British fish and chip shops were already facing a squeeze because of soaring energy costs and rising food prices.
Andrew Crook, head of the National Federation of Fish Friers, said earlier this month that — even before the war — he expected a third of Britain’s fish and chip shops to go out of business. If fish prices shoot up even higher, “we are in real dire straits,” he said.
In mid-March, the U.K. slapped a 35% tariff hike on Russian whitefish, including chip-shop staples cod and haddock.
“We’re a massive part of U.K. culture and it would be a shame to see that go,” he told broadcaster ITV.
U.S. consumers are most likely to notice the impact of sanctions via price and availability of fish, said Kanae Tokunaga, who runs the Coastal and Marine Economics Lab at Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland.
“Because seafood is a global commodity, even if they are not harvested in Russia, you will notice the price hike,” Tokunaga said.
In the U.S., the dependence on foreign cod stems to the loss of its own once-robust Atlantic cod fishery that cratered in the face of overfishing and environmental changes. U.S. fishermen, based mostly in New England, brought more than 100 million pounds (45.4 million kilograms) of cod to the docks per year in the early 1980s, but the 2020 catch was less than 2 million pounds (900,000 kilograms).
Regulators have tried to save the fishery with management measures such as very low fishing quotas, and many fishermen targeting other East Coast groundfish species such as haddock and flounder now avoid cod altogether.
Seafood processors in Massachusetts are concerned about job losses due to loss of Russian products, Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who does support sanctions on Russia, said.
“I have heard from seafood processors in my home state with concerns about potential sudden effects of a new, immediate ban on imports on their workforce, including hundreds of union workers in the seafood processing industry,” he said on the Senate floor in February.
For U.S. producers of seafood staples such as fish and chips, the lack of Russian cod could mean pivoting to other foreign sources, said Walt Golet, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences.
“We might be able to bring in more from Norway, a little more from Canadian fisheries,” Golet said. “It really is driven by the price of those imports.”
As an alternative, producers and consumers could try underutilized fish species caught domestically, such as Atlantic pollock and redfish, said Ben Martens, executive director of Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association.
“Maybe this is a time to use haddock or hake or maybe monkfish, something different,” Martens said. “If it’s going to disrupt supply chains it does present an opportunity for other species to fill that void.”
—Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press
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During the closing minutes of the March 21 Zionsville Town Council meeting, Mayor Emily Styron declined to answer questions from Councilor Josh Garrett about delayed financial reporting after the town installed new financial system proposed by the mayor.
Garrett, who served as town council president from 2017-2021, was seeking answers to questions regarding the town’s financial system, such as:
- Why is the council not receiving accurate and regular financial information?
- What progress has the administration made to remedy the problem?
- What will it take to get the financial system working efficiently?
“For someone who claims to be a proponent on transparency and accountability, it is confusing to me why (Styron) is not willing to stand up and talk about, what I would argue, is the town’s most important system, as it allows us to know what’s going on with our revenue and expenses for the entire town,” Garrett said.
Shortly after the meeting, the town announced the hiring of a new CFO, Kellie Adams, who starts April 11.
According to Garrett, the lack of financial reporting from the mayor’s office dates back to April 6, 2020, when the mayor initially came to the council requesting the creation of a CFO position for the town.
The council agreed, and at the end of the interview cycle, Tammy Harvard was selected to be the town’s first CFO.
According to Garrett, shortly after Harvard started, the mayor’s administration returned to the council requesting to replace the town’s financial system with a newer and more transparent system.
Harvard, who resigned as CFO in December 2021, said the administration chose system from the software company OpenGov.
“I couldn’t argue that our system was old, and I certainly supported the idea of transparency, so we voted in favor of this,” Garrett said. “But what they didn’t tell us was that they were going to shut off the old system before the new system was brought online. That’s a huge red flag. That’s what those of us in the IT world would consider a ‘worst practice,’ because if something goes wrong, you don’t have a fall back.”
Garrett said that the council only learned about the situation months after the fact, when problems had begun occurring.
Since the town switched to OpenGov, the council has only received financial information from the mayor’s office three times in 18 months, according to Garrett. He said the information has been incomplete, inconsistent and in some cases inaccurate.
Garrett said in in the past, the council always received that information upon request.
“I want to be clear that I don’t think these financials are being hidden from us,” Garrett said. “I just want my questions answered. And I don’t want it to be a closed-door meeting. I want the mayor to come down here and talk to this council about what I think is a big problem for this community. The public has a right to hear what’s going on.”
Styron, who attended the March 21 meeting but declined to answer Garrett’s questions, provided Current the following statement afterward:
“Our switch to a new financial system has delayed monthly financial reporting. Like (the) Town Council, I am frustrated that this has taken more time than anticipated. I am confident our new CFO Kellie Adams will step into this role with the knowledge and solutions to keep moving us forward.”
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This session of the Kentucky General Assembly has not always offered promising results, but as the days in the session wind down, there has been several pieces of good news for Scott County.
Two pieces of legislation in particular promise to have a long and lasting impact for our community, and especially for some of our most vulnerable citizens.
Midweek, legislation passed the House and is now heading to the governor creating a second Family Court judge seat for the 14th Judicial District. Although the 14th Judicial District covers Woodford and Bourbon counties, make no mistake the real need for another Family Court judge is in Scott County. Family Court Judge Lisa Morgan has struggled to manage a court docket that has increased substantially as our community has grown.
Family Court cases are sensitive, but they also must be heard in a timely manner. These include child custody cases in which a child’s welfare and future may hang in the balance. These cases include domestic abuse, substance abuse, child support, as well as divorce. State statues have time requirements in which cases must be heard and how often adding strains to a docket that is already overburdened.
Last year, a bill that would create a second Family Court judge seat did not pass the session. During hearings for that bill last year, Morgan testified there were over 4,000 active cases on the docket.
The bill that passed this session will not include an appointment, but the election for a second Family Court judge will be on the November ballot and starting in 2023 there will be two judges that will undoubtably make a huge difference in a lot of lives.
Morgan and Circuit Court Judge Jeremy Mattox have worked hard advocating for this new position and deserve credit for making it happen.
Out of the blue, apparently, AMEN House received notification that $500,000 has been allocated towards relocating or construction of a building for the local food pantry in the state’s two-year budget. Several years ago — before the pandemic — AMEN House announced plans to build a new warehouse. Land was purchased, but officials have since learned that establishing infrastructure in that area would be costly, so AMEN House officials are deciding how to proceed either finding a new established location or building in a place where infrastructure exists or perhaps raising the funds to locate on the land originally purchased.
Either way, the half million allocation gets AMEN House started towards a new day.
“We have had to turn down food, which isn’t right, because we have no place to store it,” said AMEN House executive director Michelle Carlisle, adding the state allocation is a huge boost towards the future.
In each instance, Sen. Damon Thayer was singled out as a advocate in the legislature and a primary reason both took place.
Both of these events are good news for Scott County, and everyone who played a role in making them happen deserves appreciation.
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NEW YORK (AP) —The following list shows the Nasdaq stocks that have gone up the most and down the most based on percent of change for 2021. No securities trading below 1000 shares are included. Net and percentage change are the difference be- tween last year's closing price and this year's closing. Changes for issues added during the year are calcu- lated from closing prices on the first trading day. UPS Name PEHighLowLastChg.Pct. 1CiscoSys 19 46.74 44.15 46.25 +1.38 + 3.1 2AppleIncs 33 128.72 117.57 121.42 +.16 + .1 3Intel 12 63.14 57.91 60.74 — .04 — .1 4Microsoft 37 237.47 224.26 231.60 — .78 — .3 DOWNS Name PEHighLowLastChg.Pct. 1Microsoft 37 237.47 224.26 231.60 — .78 — .3 2Intel 12 63.14 57.91 60.74 — .04 — .1 3AppleIncs 33 128.72 117.57 121.42 +.16 + .1 4CiscoSys 19 46.74 44.15 46.25 +1.38 + 3.1 —————————
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DENVER — A new class action lawsuit accuses Xcel Energy of negligence related to the Marshall Fire, the most destructive fire in Colorado history, claiming power lines and utility equipment “were a substantial factor in the cause, origin, and continuation” of the event.
Court documents filed Thursday list the plaintiffs as two businesses and John and Jane Doe, a married couple characterized as “terrorized and damaged” by the fire that tore through parts of Boulder County on Dec. 30. This couple, the lawsuit says, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Coloradans who experienced property damage or suffered financial loss because of the fire.
The lawsuit contends that just before the fire, a witness captured video showing sparks flying from a malfunctioning power line near the Shell gas station at 1805 South Foothills Highway, in the Eldorado Springs neighborhood of Boulder County.
It goes on to directly say these sparks ignited the Marshall Fire, though fire investigators have not released information backing that assertion.
Thursday, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office said it will take several more months to investigate the cause and origin of the fire. Several pieces of evidence remain under review.
The court documents, however, still identify the role of Xcel equipment in past fires -- the Cabin Creek Fire in 2007 that killed five employees and injured three others, and the Overland Fire that destroyed 12 homes in 2003.
The Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes and killed one person. Another person is still unaccounted for after the fire.
According to the lawsuit, the design of Xcel's infrastructure presents "inherent danger." The plaintiffs accuse the company of failing to properly inspect and maintain power lines.
In the case of the Marshall Fire, the lawsuit specifically points to information from Xcel spokesperson Michelle Aguayo, saying she acknowledged the possibility of arcing power lines on the day of the fire.
When contacted by 9NEWS in February, Aguayo did say via email that lines could have touched, but Xcel had not found downed power lines and the company had no evidence Xcel equipment could have started the fire.
"We are supporting the investigation and will continue to evaluate the facts as we go forward," the email said. "Our equipment held up well in unprecedented 110 mph wind gusts on the day of the fire, but it is possible that some lines may have touched during the storm. Nevertheless, nothing we have seen to this point in the investigation leads us to believe that arcing – or any other aspect of our equipment’s operation – ignited the fire."
Xcel said Thursday afternoon they are reviewing the lawsuit.
"We’re aware of the filing and we’re currently reviewing it," a spokesperson said. "As you know, the cause of the fire is still under investigation and we continue to work with authorities. Our own investigation shows that our equipment in the area of the fire was properly maintained and inspected, consistent with our high standards, and we have not seen evidence that our equipment ignited the fire."
This lawsuit seeks monetary compensation for reasons including medical care, lost wages and emotional distress.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers passed a measure on Thursday to create a paid family leave program, sending the legislation to Gov. Larry Hogan.
The bill, approved by supermajority votes by Democrats who control the legislature, would enable workers to take up to 12 weeks of partially paid leave for specified personal family circumstances such as caring for a sick relative or having a baby. It would provide up to 24 weeks for a parent, if he or she has a serious health issue in the year of a child's birth.
“This has been a long time coming,” said Sen. Antonio Hayes, a Baltimore Democrat. He thanked supporters who have “come together and really advocated on behalf of Maryland families."
Republicans criticized the measure for failing to spell out how much employees and employers would have to contribute, leaving that for the state's labor department to define later. They said Democrats were rushing to get the bill to the Republican governor just to meet a deadline so lawmakers will still be in session if the bill is vetoed.
“We're pushing this bill as quick as we can to get it upstairs,” said Sen. J.B. Jennings, a Republican, who added: “We don't know the numbers ... this bill is a hot mess.”
Because lawmakers are in the last session of the four-year term, they would not have a chance to override the veto next year if they adjourn before the governor acts on legislation.
The measure would create an insurance pool. Employees and employers would contribute to fund the program. Under the bill, the state’s labor department would set contribution rates to pay for the program. Employers with fewer than 15 employees would not be required to contribute.
The measure also includes job protections to protect employees from retaliation or termination for using the leave.
Seven states and the District of Columbia have paid family and medical leave insurance programs, including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Washington. Colorado and Oregon have approved programs that have not started yet.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Tens of thousands of basketball fans have landed in Minneapolis for the weekend ahead of the NCAA Women’s Final Four this weekend.
The event marks one of the largest held downtown since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. It’s estimated between 20-30 thousand spectators will enjoy the event – spending millions of dollars in the process.
READ MORE: Lawmakers Mull Expanding Outreach To Farmers, Communities About Climate ChangeFor the fans of Stanford, South Carolina, University of Connecticut and Louisville, all that matters currently is a chance at the championship trophy.
“We’re here to see them win the National Championship,” said Fran Parker, who traveled with her family from Columbia, South Carolina to watch the Gamecocks compete. “We are diehard South Carolina fans.”
Parker and her family visited Bloomington’s Mall of America Thursday afternoon – a place the group says has given them a break from outdoor elements they aren’t quite accustomed to.
“It’s been cold,” said Erin Parker.
READ MORE: Report: State's Slow Reactions, Poor Communication Made Riots After George Floyd's Murder WorseAnd while many looking to spend a day inside found refuge at the mall, others braved the temperatures for a chance to explore the city’s downtown.
“It’s been great honestly,” said Syndi Spencer as she left a NCAA-themed popup store on 7th Street and Nicollet Avenue. “I feel like we’re right in the center, obviously the heart of the city. It’s been cool to able to go and explore.”
Alright… @UConnCheerTeam is in the house!!! Downtown Minneapolis is filling up with @WFinalFour fans!! Hear from them all tonight on @WCCO at 6! #WCCO pic.twitter.com/Re5VHM6KBD
— Adam Duxter (@AdamDuxter) March 31, 2022
Spencer was joined by a group of UConn supporters- fellow members of the cheerleading squad.
“UConn won its first Final Four in Minneapolis,” said cheer team member Meg Lester, referencing the Huskies 1995 victory at Target Center.
Starting Friday, fans will get an opportunity to experience a number of free events – both on First Ave outside the Target Center, as well as at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Throughout the weekend, visitors can enjoy a free concert, as well as events highlighting women in sports.
MORE NEWS: Romaine Lettuce Brand Recalled Due To Possible Parasite Contamination“We’re just happy to be here,” Spencer said.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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New York Democrats drew a new congressional map with boundaries that could gain their party as many as three new seats, a crucial advantage at a time when the House majority will come down to just a handful of wins.
The judge’s order was the latest redistricting disappointment Democrats have faced in recent weeks after what had been several initial legal wins. A Maryland judge invalidated a Democratic-drawn congressional map, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Wisconsin court-approved legislative maps that added a new majority-Black district, and an Ohio map that heavily favored Republicans, thrown out by the state Supreme Court, is now expected to remain in place for 2022.
The New York congressional map ruled unconstitutional by the state judge would give Democrats 22 seats to four Republican ones. The New York delegation is composed of 19 Democratic seats to eight seats for Republicans. The state lost a seat because of slow growth over the past 10 years.
Democrats, who had full control of New York state government for the first time in a century, argued they were using their power to right wrongs in previous maps. But Republicans decried it as a partisan gerrymander that ran afoul of voters’ wishes to take raw politics out of redistricting.
In 2014, New York voters approved a constitutional amendment to set up a separate entity outside the state legislature to control redistricting. The 10-member commission was split equally along partisan lines. Of the members, eight were appointed by partisan legislative leaders.
The commission was supposed to present a single map to the legislature that state lawmakers could adopt or reject. But beset with its own partisan infighting, the commission did not come up with a unified map, instead submitting two sets of lines, one drawn by the Democrats on the panel and another drawn by the Republicans. The commission’s drama effectively allowed state lawmakers to dismiss its work and create their own map.
“The scourge of gerrymandering is not unique to New York,” McAllister, a Republican, wrote. “In 2014, New York State took major steps to avoid being plagued by gerrymandering. … The 2020 census was the first time after the constitutional amendment that led New York to draw new districts. Therefore, this is a case of first impression in many respects.”
Democrats involved in the redistricting effort said that Republicans purposely took the case to a rural, conservative judge and that the outcome would ultimately be decided by a higher court, where they will fight for the maps to stand.
“This is one step in the process,” said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for New York state Senate Democrats. “We always knew this case would be decided by the appellate courts. We are appealing this decision and expect this decision will be stayed as the appeal process proceeds.”
Republicans cheered the lower-court decision, calling it a win for New York voters who wanted a less-partisan redistricting process. Democrats have made similar arguments in GOP-held states that also passed anti-gerrymandering ballot initiatives, such as Ohio.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), a co-chairman of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, brushed aside a question about the similarity in circumstances between the two states.
“It’s very difficult to compare state to state in this,” he said during a call with reporters. “What we do see, though, is those who have looked at the New York map, independent experts and those like me involved in the political process, have stated right from the beginning that of all 50 states that have engaged in redistricting, this was by far the worst gerrymandering in the country.”
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This week, the family of Bruce Willis announced that the 67-year-old actor is stepping away from his acting career. “Our dear Bruce is experiencing some health issues and was recently diagnosed with aphasia, which is affecting his cognitive abilities,” said his daughter, Rumer. wrote On Instagram. Aphasia, which affects an estimated 2 million Americans, is a language disorder that affects one’s ability to communicate with others. While the Willis family did not specify the reason for the actor’s diagnosis, aphasia has been linked to brain damage, either a stroke, injury, or…
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Police: Officer kills man who armed himself while in custody
MIAMI (AP) - A Florida police officer fatally shot a man who was able to arm himself after being arrested Thursday, officials said.
The shooting occurred shortly before noon at a western Miami-Dade home, according to a police news release.
Miami-Dade police officers had been assisting Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Marshals Service when they took a 53-year-old man into custody, police said. The man complained of feeling ill, and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to evaluate him. During the evaluation, the man somehow armed himself, and shots were fired, officials said.
The man died at the scene. No other injuries were reported.
The shooting is being investigated by state police officials.
Police didn't immediately release the names or races of the dead man or the officer who shot him.
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Love Is Blind’s Shayne Jansen Addresses Drug Use Allegations!
Shayne Jansen opened up about all the rumors around him during a recent podcast interview.
Love Is Blind star, Shayne Jansen, addressed some of the allegations that came out after the show’s season 2 reunion. A few of the things he spoke about were his relationship with Natalie Lee, if he was using drugs during the show, and who he is still talking to right now. Jansen showed up on Nick Viall’s podcast Viall Files on March 30 to address all the rumors and allegations that have been circulating online.
Jansen responded to drug allegations by fans that he was using cocaine during filming and snorting lines while in the bathroom. Shayne denied the rumors, adding that he has ADHD which makes him anxious and unable to sit still. He said, “You have cameras here, cameras here, staring at you while you’re confessing your love and you’re talking about deep emotions,” he said about his time in the pods. “It’s an uncomfortable situation, regardless.”
Shayne also spoke about his ex, Natalie, since she had also spoken about their relationship. The Love is Blind star clarified that he was not trying to tarnish Natalie’s name. “I want it to not go unnoticed that Natalie is a good person and what we went through was very dramatic for both of us. I just had a lot to get off my chest… I don’t wish ill will on her and I don’t wish her to get hate at all.” Jansen did admit to drinking about five shots of espresso to help him with his anxiety.
Shayne also said he and Natalie are officially over since he is done trying to make their relationship work. “It’s over. For the first time, I can confidently say that. If you asked me that a week ago, I wouldn’t be able to answer that for you.” According to Shayne, Natalie makes him feel “horrible” about himself and he’s not sure if he ever loved her. As he put it, “I love Natalie but did I fall in love with the idea of her? I go back and forth and I think about it all the time.”
Natalie Lee responded to Jansen’s comments about her and their relationship on her Instagram Stories. She said, ”Right now I’m saddened and confused by his dishonesty on the podcast.” She continued, “I didn’t think it would get to a point where I’d have to address this publicly, but blatantly lying about me on a podcast for whatever motive is where I draw the line.”
Jansen also added that he is no longer close with the Love Is Blind cast because of his relationship with Natalie. “A lot of stuff has happened outside of the show right now. It’s constant gossip and drama with them. I think they feed off of it a little bit,” he continued. “There’s a new story about me every single time with them and I feel like I always get attacked by the whole group of them. I feel like they always take Natalie’s side more than mine.”
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Affirm Holdings (AFRM) Stock Moves -1.01%: What You Should Know
Affirm Holdings (AFRM) closed the most recent trading day at $46.28, moving -1.01% from the previous trading session. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Coming into today, shares of the operator of digital commerce platform had gained 11.84% in the past month. In that same time, the Business Services sector gained 4.53%, while the S&P 500 gained 5.37%.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from Affirm Holdings as it approaches its next earnings report date. The company is expected to report EPS of -$0.55, up 23.61% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $331.64 million, up 43.77% from the prior-year quarter.
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What are the odds of an author getting a book published and seen on bookstore shelves? Literary agent Chip MacGregor says the chances could be as low as 0.0065%. But that did not deter Clements/Parsons Elementary students who used their preparation for the STAAR writing assessment to become published authors.
Library paraprofessional LeAnn Jones challenged herself to create new and fun ways to help students practice their writing skills. Earlier in the year during library time when students were learning about authors and illustrators, they were curious to learn more about the process on how a story ends up in a book. Jones presented the idea to the students of writing, illustrating, and publishing their own books.
Students started working on their books in September, quickly learning that writing a book and bringing it to publication was a very long process. Each class brainstormed together to come up with topics for their books and decide if they would be fiction or non-fiction.
Jones said the lesson provided great opportunities for students to practice working together and listening to others’ ideas as well as compromising. Students worked together to research their topics, write rough drafts and then, after correcting any spelling or grammatical mistakes, they wrote their final drafts and completed their illustrations. Each student wrote at least one page and drew an illustration page in his classroom book.
“The students all worked so hard and came in each library class excited to get to work,” Jones said. “Seeing the students so excited about writing was wonderful.”
When students completed their illustrations and final drafts, their work was boxed up and sent to the publisher. After four months of writing and another six weeks for printing, students’ published books arrived on campus.
Students and parents had the opportunity to purchase copies of the books. Each book is also available in the Clements library to be checked out by students like all other books on the shelves.
Students wrap up their STAAR testing for the 2021-2022 school year on April 5-8 and April 12-15.
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The Heritage Foundation of Williamson County is now accepting this year’s nominations for its preservation advocacy program, Sites to Save, which seeks to identify historic places that are vulnerable to demolition, development or neglect.
The Sites to Save list highlights properties that are historically significant and endangered because of age, condition or potential development, according to a press release from the organization. It is designed as a tool to help the community come alongside the Heritage Foundation in its efforts to raise awareness of Williamson County’s significant historic, cultural, geographical and archaeological resources including buildings, structures, cemeteries, historic districts, archaeological sites and natural and cultural landscapes.
Nominations can come from individuals, preservation organizations, downtown and neighborhood revitalization organizations, historical societies, historic road associations, local governments and other interested parties, and can include historic structures, cemeteries and natural resources.
“Historic places are the blueprints of our communities, and it takes all of us working together to preserve and protect them for future generations,” said Rachael Finch, senior director of preservation and education. “Our Sites to Save initiative shines a spotlight on at-risk places so that community members can rally and advocate for their longevity.”
Historic preservation has long been a vital contributor to the quality of life in Williamson County, per the release, and Heritage Foundation preservationists say they see the endangered list as way to generate creative approaches to preservation and connect property owners with resources to ensure that historic places are saved and rehabilitated for future generations.
Nominations will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Friday, April 15, and evaluated by Heritage Foundation preservationists and members of the organization’s preservation and advocacy committee. Each nominated property will be reviewed for its value to local, regional, state and/or national history and the nature of the specific threat involved and then narrowed down to a final list of Williamson County’s most endangered historic places.
Six properties were selected from the 2021 Sites to Save nomination process: the Historic Franklin Masonic Hall, the Merrill-Williams House, Williamson Iron Furnace, Civil War Earthworks, farmstead tracks in Nolensville and the Franklin Creekside property. Additionally, the Sites to Watch list included the Daniel McMahon House, the Gaylor House and the McCord-Patton Cemetery. Of these, two have since been saved from the threat of development and demolition: The Merrill-Williams House and the Williamson Iron Furnace.
For each of the sites on the list, staff at the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County plan to attend relevant public meetings on their behalf, consult with willing property owners and municipalities about the history of the property and offer insight on preservation and restoration. They hope to connect willing property owners with construction and preservation experts related to the needs of the site.
In addition, the top two sites on the list will receive in-kind resources valued between $25,000 and $50,000 through the Heritage Foundation and its divisions for preservation resources and fundraising.
This year’s Sites to Save list will be revealed during National Preservation Month at the Heritage Foundation’s fifth annual Preservation Symposium Saturday, May 7, at the Williamson County Enrichment Center.
Click here to nominate an endangered historic place in Williamson County. Go here to learn more about the upcoming Preservation Symposium.
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Malignant Comes Home On 4K Blu-ray On May 24th
Malignant, James Wan's big return to horror from 2021 and one of the best films released last year, is finally getting a release on 4K Blu-ray on May 24th. Starring Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Michole Briana White, and Jean Louisa Kelly, the film is bonkers crazy. It features one of the weirdest, craziest last half hours you will see in a movie. It all turns on a dime, and you are either on board, or you will turn it off. It is THAT crazy. You better leave it on, though. I loved the twist, and the film features excellent effects. Sadly, there is only one behind the scenes look at the film on the disc, which is a shame. I want to know so much more about the story and how Wan came up with it, and more. Maybe someday. Check out the cover for the release and details down below.
Malignant Release Details
"Director James Wan returns to his roots with this new original horror thriller. A woman (Annabelle Wallis) is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities. The film was produced by Wan and Michael Clear, with Eric McLeod, Judson Scott, Bisu, Peter Luo, Cheng Yang, Mandy Yu, and Lei Han executive producing. The film also stars Michole Briana White (TV's "Black Mafia Family," "Dead to Me"), Jacqueline McKenzie ("Palm Beach," TV's "Reckoning"), Jake Abel (TV's "Supernatural," the "Percy Jackson" films) and Ingrid Bisu ("The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It," "The Nun")."
Here are the special features and technical specs for the Malignant release:
- Malignant: James Wan's Visions – Groundbreaking filmmaker James Wan takes us behind the scenes for a look at his latest film, Malignant, a genre-bending thriller
- Optional English SDH, Latin Spanish, and Canadian French subtitles for the main feature
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This post sponsored by Westosha Floral.
The following deaths of local residents and those with local connections are being reported by funeral homes today. Click on name to see obituary/service information:
Jeffrey John Ziemelis, 57, of Paris, died March 21, 2022.
Note: This post sponsored by Westosha Floral. — DH
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LAREDO, Texas – New video footage shows the moment Texas troopers and Border Patrol agents rescued a woman from a burning vehicle after she had been smuggled across the border, and was trapped in a duffel bag.
CBP agents pursued a human smuggler on March 24 in Laredo. Texas DPS soon joined the pursuit. The smuggler crashed and bailed out of the the van, which caught fire, Fox News reported.
The smuggler was immediately taken into custody and told law enforcement personnel that a woman was zipped up inside a duffel bag in the back of the van.
“She’s in the bag,” someone was overheard saying from one of the officer’s bodycams.
As a result, law enforcement officers immediately smashed out the rear window and pulled out the bag. A woman was discovered trapped inside, and thus saved from the fire.
“Holy crap,” one person can be heard saying after the woman was rescued.
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NEW: Absolutely wild footage from a @TxDPS trooper’s bodycam following a fiery human smuggler pursuit crash near Laredo. It shows TX troopers and Border Patrol agents saving the life of a woman who was zipped up in a duffel bag being smuggled inside the burning car. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/OZmAlz0xnj
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) March 31, 2022
At the behest of Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas DPS personnel have been working to help CBP secure the border as agents encounter massive numbers of migrants and attempted border crossings.
The number of migrants coming across the border has remained high throughout 2021 and into 2022. There were more than 164,000 migrant encounters in February and that number is expected to have risen in the month of March. Furthermore, there is an another anticipated surge coming this summer, Fox reported.
Sadly, there is an untold number of illegal immigrants that have already encroached U.S. territory without being detected due to the Biden administration policies that have encouraged a continual wave of humanity.
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Poland says it’s transferring MiG fighters to US base amid Ukraine pleas for help
The Polish government on Tuesday said it is ready to “immediately” deploy its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. air base in Germany, giving Washington the chance to then send the planes to Ukrainian forces.
“After consultations between the President and the Government,” Poland is “ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America,” Poland said in a statement.
“The Polish Government also requests other NATO Allies – owners of MIG-29 jets – to act in the same vein.”
The proposed transfer of the Soviet-era fighter jets is notable as Ukraine for days has pleaded with Western officials to help it counter the brutal Russian assault on the country with either a “no-fly zone” over its airspace or the transfer of aircraft that Ukrainian pilots could fly.
However, the Pentagon later on Tuesday appeared to reject Warsaw’s plan.
“The prospect of fighter jets ‘at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America’ departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace that is contested with Russia over Ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement.
“It is simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it. We will continue to consult with Poland and our other NATO allies about this issue and the difficult logistical challenges it presents, but we do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one,” he added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday implored U.S. lawmakers to send the Russian-made MiGs, which Ukrainian pilots are already trained to fly.
The United States and other nations have been reluctant to draw the ire of Russia with such a major arms transfer. Moscow has warned that any nation that gives Ukraine aircraft to use to fight Kremlin forces could be seen as participating in the conflict.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the plan had gotten “the green light” from the U.S. and that the Biden administration would then work to backfill the Polish military, reportedly with F-16 fighter jets.
Poland touched on that plan in its Tuesday statement, asking the U.S. to “provide us with used aircraft with corresponding operational capabilities,” in place of the MiGs, of which it has 27, according to Janes.
The White House has tempered expectations, however, with press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday pointing to the complicated logistics of backfilling planes for its allies.
Procuring new planes and transferring serious weapons systems “often take years to do from the United States,” she told reporters.
Additionally, Poland’s offer to transfer the jets wasn’t “preconsulted” with the United States prior to the Tuesday announcement, according to Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland.
“I saw that announcement by the government of Poland as I was literally driving here today,” Nuland told lawmakers at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
“So to my knowledge, it wasn’t pre-consulted with us that they plan to give these planes to us,” she said, adding that after the hearing ended she would return to her desk and see “how we will respond to this proposal of theirs to give the planes to us.”
Updated at 7:41 p.m.
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We shared these celebrity-chosen items because we think you'll like their picks at these prices. Some of the products shown are from a brand they are paid to endorse. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a commission if you purchase something through our links. Items are sold by the retailer, not E!. Prices are accurate as of publish time.
We love to shop and we love to know what celebrities are up to, so, of course, stars' product picks are right up our alley. We love sharing recommendations for clothes, beauty products, home items, and more from some of our favorite celebs, including Reese Witherspoon, Kim Kardashian, Kate Middleton, Shay Mitchell, Oprah Winfrey, Sydney Sweeney, Lala Kent, JoJo Fletcher, Hannah Brown, Camila Alves McConaughey, Kyle Richards, Bebe Rexha, Hannah Godwin, Teresa Giudice, Susie Evans, Dove Cameron, Meghan Trainor, Shawn Johnson, Madelaine Petsch, Camille Kostek, Margaret Josephs, Emily Simpson, Olivia Jade, Hannah Ann Sluss, Alessia Cara, Morgan Simianer, Joey King, Evelyn Lozada, Teddi Mellencamp, Zara Larsson, Lisa Barlow, Porsha Williams, Catherine Lowe, and Gabby Windey.
We decided to take a look back at this past month to find the celebrity-recommended products that E! News shoppers bought the most.
Tarte Shape Tape Concealer
This concealer has been recommended by so many celebrities, including Shay Mitchell, Kyle Richards, Bebe Rexha, Hannah Godwin, Teresa Giudice, Dove Cameron, Meghan Trainor, Shawn Johnson, Madelaine Petsch, Camille Kostek, Margaret Josephs, Emily Simpson, Olivia Jade, Hannah Ann Sluss, Alessia Cara, Morgan Simianer, Joey King, Evelyn Lozada, Teddi Mellencamp, Zara Larsson.
This concealer has 19,900+ 5-star reviews from Tarte shoppers and 9,900+ 5-star Ulta reviews. You can get a bundle with a makeup sponge at QVC. And, yes, it's on Amazon too, but only in limited shades.
Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré, Face Cream & Makeup Primer
Use this multi-tasking cream as a moisturizer, an overnight mask, and a makeup primer. It absorbs very quickly, it doesn't irritate my skin, and it's an affordable find. It has 7,600+ 5-star Amazon reviews. It has been recommended by Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney, The Bachelor alum Catherine Lowe, and Real Housewives stars Porsha Williams, Teresa Giudice, and Margaret Josephs.
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
Reese Witherspoon shared, "What a wiiiild read! Are you ready for the roller coaster ride that is The Club? Our March #ReesesBookClub pick by @ellerylloyd_author is a beautifully written, densely plotted thriller that takes place at a private club off the coast of England. Read about a luxurious, celeb-only island during a weekend of partying and mystery."
Wet n Wild Photo Focus Foundation
The Bachelor alum Susie Evans said that she uses this $3 foundation, remarking, "It's actually so cheap but I love it.! Wet n Wild Photo Focus- they have a dewy and a matte. I alternate or use both."
This foundation has 10,100+ 5-star reviews.
Kitsch Ultra Soft Microfiber Hair Towel Scrunchies for Frizz Free, Heatless Hair Drying- 2 Pack
The Bachelorette alum Hannah Brown said, "These are towel scrunchies by Kitsch. They have amazing stuff. They have a lot of different products. These towel scrunchies are great because sometimes I take a shower in the morning and my hair is sopping wet. I have really thick hair. It takes forever to blow dry my hair, so a way that I can save time is by using this towel scrunchie. It's super absorbent. It's great for taming frizz. I just truly loves these. They're really great. They're one of Kitsch's bestsellers. These are really cute for the pool and hot yoga too."
"They don't dent your hair. If you're a girl on the go, you need these in your life." These have 7,100+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Sweet Sweat Waist Trimmer
The Bachelorette alum JoJo Fletcher said, "I have this Sweet Sweat Waist Trimmer, which I got because I follow this fitness girl who's always doing workouts with this on. This gives you some sort of heat compression when you work out, so you really sweat. Sweating is good when you work out. It's super comfortable and you can tighten it to fit your size. These come in different sizes."
This waist trimmer has 145.300+ 5-star Amazon reviews. This has also been recommended by Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards and Southern Charm cast member Madison LeCroy.
Skims Swimsuits
Introducing her first swim collection, Kim Kardashian said, "We've really taken the time to make sure we're offering the best solutions for our customers. Buying swimwear should be fun and easy, yet so many women feel daunted by it. I wanted to change that and make the process as simple as possible by providing a full swim wardrobe – both for in and out of the water."
Just Try One Bite by Camila Alves McConaughey & Adam Mansbach
Camila Alves McConaughey told E! News, "I had such a good time writing this book with Adam. Food is such an important part of our lives, and this is the perfect book for the little ones in your life. We wanted to write a book that shares healthy food habits in a fun way and will have everyone smiling at the end."
The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark By Jill Tomlinson
Kate Middleton shared her favorite children's books with Camilla Parker Bowles' book club The Reading Room. She said, "I loved this book as a little girl and listening to my own children reading it has brought back so many wonderful memories. A comforting story to help children face their fears and grow in confidence with the help of others."
theBalm Hot Mama! Shadow/Blush, Subtle Highlighter
Kyle Richards shared, "This blush I have talked about for years and years and years. My makeup artists and castmates ended up loving this too after I shared it with them. I used this before people started using highlighter. It has a built-in highlighter. I've been using this since Season 1 of the Housewives. All of the girls would borrow it. It has a natural highlighter built-in. It's a beautiful coral color, I'm obsessed. I've used it for years and years and years. I can't say enough about that."
Chesapeake Bay Candle Scented Candle, Strength + Energy (Pineapple Coconut), Coffee Table Jar
Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent said, "This candle smells so good. This one is for strength and energy. It's pineapple and coconut. Oh my gosh, it's so good. I don't know if any of you watch Real Housewives of Potomac, but three wicks. Three-wick candle, bam. That was a really funny storyline."
This Amazon bestselling candle comes in many scents and it has 33,900+ 5-star reviews.
Free People Women's FP Movement Sunny Skinny Sweatpants
JoJo Fletcher said, "I have these Free People joggers in a couple different colors. These are a really cool lounge-y sweatpant. They're more tailored with a slim fit. These are great to run errands, travel, and work out. I really like these." These are available in eight colors.
Deweisn Tri-fold Lighted Vanity Mirror With 21 Led Lights, Touch Screen and 3x/2x/1x Magnification, Two Power Supply Modes
Lala Kent shared, "I found the best makeup mirror ever. You guys are going to die. Not only does it take batteries, it also charges. It's the best of both worlds. This is a must. All you do is click and you've got your lights. It has magnifying mirrors on the sides. This is what sold me. It's hard to put fake eyelashes on and do a winged liner with a normal mirror. I need to zoom in with this mirror. Your makeup will be flawless with this mirror."
This mirror comes in 7 colors and it has 13,300+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Hot Tools Professional Nano Ceramic 1.5-Inch Curling Iron
The Bachelorette star Gabby Windey shared, "This is the curling iron that I use. It's one and a half inches. It's Hot Tools. I've had it for so long. I usually use hairspray too," Gabby shared.
She instructed, "Curl away from the face. Halfway first, hold for a few seconds, then all the way. I use bigger pieces on the bottom and smaller on the top, since the top is what really matters."
Cusimax Raclette Grill Electric Grill Table Portable 2 in 1 Korean BBQ Grill, Reversible Non-stick Plate, Crepe Maker With Adjustable Temperature Control and 8 Paddles
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Lisa Barlow said, "I love my new grill. I could be like a celebrity chef. It's amazing. Food Network, watch out. Who's Mary [Cosby] to say that my diet is bad and I don't eat well?"
This electric grill has a two-in-1 reversible, non-stick cooking tray. Use the grooved side to grill and the flat side to whip up some crepes, pancakes, and eggs. This grill is a great multi-tasker for everyday use, plus it's portable and easy to pack for a family trip.
The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck
Oprah Winfrey posted, "My next @oprahsbookclub pick is The Way of Integrity by @themarthabeck. For over 15 years, I have looked to Martha for her wisdom and marveled at how she helps people through crises in their lives. As we all navigate this watershed moment in our collective history, this book provides a roadmap on the journey to truth and authenticity."
Laxizar 8 Pack Hair Claw Clips
Hannah Brown said, "I hate having my hair in my face. These clippys, I call them 'clippys.' These are all the rage right now. This is a pack of six that I have. They come in so many colors. If you go to any trendy store lately, you're going to see so many different claw clips."
These clips have 1,500+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Funtopia Hair Claw Clips- Set of 6
Hannah Brown said, "I have claw clips in two different sizes. I went to a store that I'm not going to name that had this exact one for $28 a piece. Instead, you can get this set of six for way less than that. They're so cute in the hair. I have really thick hair and these hold a lot of hair. These are great gifts for any girl you have in your life. We always need these."
These clips have 1,300+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Maldon Sea Salt Flakes
"This is an ingredient that I cannot be without. This salt has great texture and flavor and is versatile. Since this salt is an unrefined sea salt, it is much less processed, allowing the salt to retain minerals such as iron, potassium, and zinc for consumption. Interesting fact, this salt comes from Maldon UK, and their master salt makers have been making this salt the same way since 1882," Camila Alves McConaughey said.
This salt has 28,300+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
If you're looking for more celeb-inspired shopping, check out these sneakers that have been spotted on Gigi Hadid, Reese Witherspoon, Joe Jonas, Sydney Sweeney, Emily Ratajkowski, and more stars.
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California lawmakers extend eviction ban for some renters
SACRAMENTO — Tens of thousands of Californians facing eviction today for not paying their rent will get to stay in their homes for at least another three months after state lawmakers voted Thursday to extend a law that protects them just hours before it was scheduled to expire.
California will pay off people’s unpaid rent if they fell behind on their payments because of the pandemic. People must apply to get the money and state law says they cannot be evicted while their application is pending.
That law was scheduled to expire at midnight Thursday. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of households still had pending applications as of Tuesday. It would have been impossible for the state to process all of those before the deadline, meaning households still waiting to get the money could have been evicted beginning today.
Lawmakers voted Thursday to ban evictions for anyone with a pending application until June 30. Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis intended to sign the bill into law that day because Gov. Gavin Newsom had left the state for vacation with his family.
“We’re not going to allow for Californians to suffer, to lose their homes or even their income because of application processing times,” said Assemblymember Tim Grayson, a Democrat from Concord who wrote the bill.
While the bill will stop evictions for people who have applied for assistance, it will not give renters more time to apply for help. California’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program stopped accepting new applications at midnight on Thursday. The program has been open for more than a year. But housing advocates say many people have still not applied because they don’t speak English or have had trouble gathering the necessary documents to determine their eligibility.
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Carmen Rivera, 54, said she lived in her car for six years with her young daughter before getting an apartment in Sacramento. But she wasn’t able to work much during the pandemic as a caregiver for the elderly because she was worried about bringing the virus home to her daughter, who she said has chronic asthma.
She received assistance from March through April last year. She got another job, but said she “lost it right away” because of being exposed to COVID-19. Rivera said she hasn’t paid her rent since August. She owes her landlord at least $10,000.
She applied for assistance again, but this time she wasn’t approved. She didn’t have Wi-Fi at her home, so she had to check out a device from the library that let her connect to the internet. She sent in her application in February, but said she was rejected because she could not find the necessary documents in time.
She has since applied again, and that application is still pending. She’s also waiting on a background check to start another job. The bill lawmakers approved Thursday will likely keep her in her home while her application is pending. In the meantime, Rivera is nervously waiting for news.
“I’m fighting all the way as much as I can to keep my apartment because being six years in the street with my daughter, I can tell you that it’s not easy,” she said.
Some local governments have tried to pass their own measures to protect people from eviction. But state lawmakers have mostly stopped them from doing that at the request of landlords, who say they want consistency across the state instead of a patchwork of local laws. State lawmakers imposed statewide eviction protections, and in exchange local governments were prevented from doing so.
But local leaders say what’s happening now breaks that promise. The bill lawmakers approved only protects people who applied by Thursday, and it doesn’t give renters more time to apply. Starting today, anyone who has not applied for assistance can be evicted for unpaid rent.
In San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance that would have banned evictions for unpaid rent beginning today. But the bill lawmakers approved on Thursday bans them from doing that through at least June 30.
“It’s completely outrageous,” said Supervisor Dean Preston, who sponsored the San Francisco measure. “The state should be helping us here and not tying our hands. It’s really just the worst example of special interest politics.”
Tenants are not the only ones who have been suffering. Some landlords have gone more than a year without receiving rent. The California Apartment Association, which says most of its members are small “mom and pop” landlords, said the state needs consistency with a statewide law.
“It’s been two years. There is no need for any local laws that give tenants another year of free rent,” said Debra Carlton, executive vice president for state public affairs for the California Apartment Association. “(The) unemployment rate is back to ‘normal’ so what’s the issue? Why does San Francisco want its own law?”
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California lawmakers extend eviction ban for some renters
SACRAMENTO — Tens of thousands of Californians facing eviction today for not paying their rent will get to stay in their homes for at least another three months after state lawmakers voted Thursday to extend…
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Awarded funding from the Gates Foundation to support development of inhaled formulation technology to deliver cost-effective monoclonal antibodies against influenza and COVID-19
LOS GATOS, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel anti-infective therapies to treat life-threatening infections, today reported financial and corporate results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2021.
Fourth Quarter Highlights
- Continued enrollment in the Company's Phase 2a study of AR-501 targeting cystic fibrosis (CF), conducted in collaboration with the funding support from the CF Foundation. Aridis is on track to report top-line data from this CF study in mid-2022.
- Continued enrollment in the Company's Phase 3 study evaluating AR-301 for the treatment of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP). Aridis is on track to report top-line data in the second half of 2022.
- The Company is on track to initiate the Phase 3 trial of AR-320 for the prevention of VAP in mid-2022 following regulatory feedback on the clinical development plans and Phase 3 study design received from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA). Clarity on the regulatory pathway to the registrational Phase 3 trial and licensure has been achieved. The Phase 3 SAATELLITE-2 study will be conducted in collaboration with the COMBACTE-Net consortium of HAP/VAP experts, funded up to 25 million Euros by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) program of the European Commission.
- Reported preclinical data demonstrating that AR-701, the Company's first fully human monoclonal antibody (mAb) cocktail, is broadly reactive against the Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) variants, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus), and multiple seasonal ('common cold') human coronavirus strains.
- In January 2022, Aridis announced that it had received a $1.9 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation) to evaluate the application of the Company's inhaled formulation technology to deliver cost-effective monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against influenza and SARS-CoV-2 to people in low- and middle-income countries.
- Signed loan agreement for $10 million in non-dilutive financing with Streeterville Capital. Received first $5 million payment in November 2021 and the second $5 million payment in February 2022.
"I am proud of our team's work in 2021 as we strengthened our foundation and advanced key development programs," commented Vu Truong, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Aridis Pharmaceuticals. "2022 will be a pivotal year for Aridis as we achieve important clinical milestones, including data readout from our AR-501 Phase 2a and AR-301 Phase 3 studies as well as the initiation of the AR-320 registrational Phase 3 study, and the anticipated launch of the first-in-human clinical study of AR-701. We look forward to sharing further updates on the progress of these programs in the coming months as we continue to build our leadership in the respiratory health space."
Clinical Program Update
AR-301 (tosatoxumab): AR-301 is being evaluated in a Phase 3 clinical study as an adjunctive treatment to standard of care antibiotics in S. aureus VAP patients. The ongoing AR-301 Phase 3 study remains blinded, and the independent Data Monitoring Committee with access to unblinded data continues to monitor study subjects for safety and has not expressed any safety concerns. The Company observed modest improvement in enrollment in recent months despite the continued pandemic. However, because a significant number of participating clinical sites in the study are in Eastern Europe, the escalating Ukraine-Russia conflict is expected to negatively impact enrollment. At the present time, the company anticipates reporting top-line data in the second half of 2022.
The trial represents the first ever Phase 3 superiority clinical study evaluating immunotherapy with a fully human mAb to treat acute pneumonia in the ICU setting. Details of the study can be viewed on www.clinicaltrials.gov using identifier NCT03816956.
AR-320 (suvratoxumab): The Company licensed this Phase 3-ready asset from AstraZeneca in July 2021. A multinational, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 study (n=196 patients) showed that mechanically ventilated ICU patients colonized with S. aureus who were treated with suvratoxumab, a fully human mAb, demonstrated a relative risk reduction in onset of pneumonia by 32% in the overall intent-to-treat (ITT) study population, and by a statistically significant 47% in the under 65-year-old population, which is the target population in the planned Phase 3 study. This statistically significant relative risk reduction in the target population was also associated with a substantial reduction in the duration of care needed in the ICU and hospital. The Company completed successful discussions with the EMA via the Scientific Advisory meeting and the FDA via an End-of-Phase 2 meeting, including obtaining agreement on the planned Phase 3 study serving as a single pivotal trial. The regulatory feedback from these agencies is incorporated in the Company's clinical study design. The Company expects to launch its Phase 3 SAATELLITE-2 study of AR-320 in the mid-2022 in collaboration with the public-private COMBACTE-Net consortium of HAP/VAP experts, funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) program of the European Commission in the amount of up to 25 million Euros.
AR-501 (gallium citrate): The Company initiated its Phase 2a study to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetic (PK), and preliminary efficacy in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in the first quarter of 2021. The Phase 2a study is actively enrolling patients with a goal of delivering full data readout in mid-2022. AR-501 is being developed in collaboration with the CF Foundation and has been granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD), Fast Track and Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) designations by the FDA. In addition, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) granted ODD to AR-501. The Phase 1/2a clinical trial underway is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, utilizing single- and multiple-ascending dose and dose-ranging strategies, investigating the safety and PK of inhaled AR-501 in healthy volunteers and CF patients with chronic bacterial lung infections. Details of the Phase 1/2a clinical trial can be viewed on https://www.clinicaltrials.gov using identifier NCT03669614.
AR-701: AR-701 is a cocktail of two fully human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) mAbs discovered from screening the antibody secreting B-cells of convalescent SARS-CoV-2 infected (COVID-19) patients. Each mAb of the AR-701 cocktail neutralizes coronaviruses using a distinct mechanism of action, namely inhibition of viral fusion and entry into human cells (AR-703) or blockage of viral binding to the human 'ACE2' receptor (AR-720). The AR-701 mAbs are engineered to be half-life extended and potentially active for 6-12 months in the blood. AR-701 is being developed as a long-acting intramuscular prophylactic to prevent COVID-19 infections, as well as a self-administered inhaled formulation for the treatment of COVID-19 patients who are not yet hospitalized. In February 2022, Aridis reported that both of its fully human mAbs in the AR-701 cocktail neutralized the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. Moreover, both mAbs conferred strong protection against Omicron infected animals when given either parenterally or by intranasal administration. The performance of the AR-701 cocktail is published in Biorxiv [see https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.05.483133v1]. We expect to initiate a Phase 1 clinical study in 2H2022.
Fiscal 2021 Financial Results:
- Cash: Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash as of December 31, 2021, were approximately $20.0 million.
- Revenues: Grant and licensing revenue increased to approximately $1.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 primarily due to the recognition of revenue from grants from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) and the Gates Foundation as well as from Kermode, an Apex technology licensee. Grant and licensing revenue earned during the year ended December 31, 2020 was approximately $1.0 million, all from CFF. Grant and licensing revenue was approximately $0.6 million and $0 for the three months ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
- Research and Development Expenses: Research and development expenses increased by approximately $21.0 million to $38.0 million for year ended December 31, 2021 from $17.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase was due primarily to: an increase of approximately $11.5 million to in-license AR-320 rights from Medimmune; an increase of approximately $6.6 million for AR-320 drug manufacturing and clinical trial preparation costs; an increase of approximately $0.7 million for costs associated with the development of AR-701; an increase of approximately $0.5 million for the continuing conduct of the Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating AR-501 for the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis and an increase of approximately $0.6 million in personnel, consulting and other related costs.
Research and development expenses increased by approximately $4.4 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2021 to $8.6 million from $4.2 million in the same quarter in 2020. This is primarily due to increases in drug manufacturing for our AR-320 trial ($2.8 million), spending on the Gates Foundation funded project ($0.5 million) and spending on personnel, consulting and other related costs ($0.4 million). - General and Administrative Expenses: General and administrative expenses increased by approximately $0.9 million to $7.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 from $6.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase was due primarily to increases in professional service fees, franchise tax and recruitment expense to attract talent. General and administrative expenses increased in Q4 2021 to $2.0 million from $1.6 million in Q4 2020 primarily due to increases in consulting, legal fees, insurance and recruitment offset by lower accounting, rent and repairs expense.
- Interest Income (Expense) net: Net interest expense, increased by approximately $322,000 to approximately $245,000 for the year ended December 31, 2021 from approximately $77,000 net interest income for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increased expense was primarily due to our debt servicing in 2021.
- Share of Loss in Equity Method Investment. Loss from our share of equity method investment in Shenzhen Arimab Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. decreased by approximately $9,000 to zero for the year ended December 31, 2021. The loss was $9,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020. Our share of loss from our minority interest calculated under the equity method was limited to the reduction of the net book value of the investment to zero as of March 31, 2020.
- Other Income: Other income in the year ended December 31, 2021, increased by approximately $796,000 from zero during the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to forgiveness of the $722,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Additionally, other income from a sublease agreement we entered into with a tenant in March 2021 to sublet a small portion of our Los Gatos facility increased by approximately $74,000 during the year ended December 31, 2021, from zero for the year ended December 31, 2020. Other income increased by approximately $22,000 in Q4 2021. There was no sublease agreement or related income during the three months ended December 30, 2020.
- Net Loss: The net loss available to common stockholders for the year ended December 31, 2021, was approximately $47.3 million, or $3.85 net loss per share, compared to a net loss available to common stockholders of approximately $22.3 million, or $2.44 net loss per share, for the year ended December 31, 2020. The weighted average common shares outstanding used in computing net loss per share available to common stockholders was 12,291,600 million and 9,168,744 million for the years ended December 31 of 2021 and 2020, respectively.
About Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops anti-infectives to be used as first-line treatments to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and viral pandemics. The Company is utilizing its proprietary ʎPEX and MabIgX® technology platforms to rapidly identify rare, potent antibody-producing B-cells from patients who have successfully overcome an infection, and to rapidly manufacture mAbs for therapeutic treatment of critical infections. These mAbs are already of human origin and functionally optimized by the natural human immune system for high potency. Hence, they are already fit-for-purpose and do not require further engineering optimization to achieve full functionality.
The Company has generated multiple clinical stage mAbs targeting bacteria that cause life-threatening infections such as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) and hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP), in addition to preclinical stage antibacterial and antiviral mAbs. The use of mAbs as anti-infective treatments represents an innovative therapeutic approach that harnesses the human immune system to fight infections and is designed to overcome the deficiencies associated with the current standard of care, which is broad spectrum antibiotics. Such deficiencies include, but are not limited to, increasing drug resistance, short duration of efficacy, disruption of the normal flora of the human microbiome and lack of differentiation among current treatments. The mAb portfolio is complemented by a non-antibiotic novel mechanism small molecule anti-infective candidate being developed to treat lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. The Company's pipeline is highlighted below:
Aridis' Pipeline
AR-301 (VAP). AR-301 is a fully human IgG1 mAb currently in Phase 3 clinical development targeting gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) alpha-toxin in VAP patients.
AR-320 (nosocomial pneumonia). AR-320 is a fully human mAb targeting S. aureus alpha-toxin for prevention of nosocomial pneumonia. Statistically significant Phase 2 data in the target population of those ≤ 65 years of age, was recently published in Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The Company has completed discussions with the EMA and FDA on study design and expects to launch its Phase 3 study of AR-320 in mid-2022.
AR-101 (HAP). AR-101 is a fully human immunoglobulin M (IgM) mAb in Phase 2 clinical development targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) liposaccharides serotype O11, which accounts for approximately 22% of all P. aeruginosa hospital acquired pneumonia cases worldwide. This program is licensed to the Serum Institute of India and Shenzhen Arimab.
AR-501 (cystic fibrosis). AR-501 is an inhaled formulation of gallium citrate with broad-spectrum anti-infective activity being developed to treat chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. This program is currently in a Phase 2a clinical study in CF patients.
AR-701 (COVID-19). AR-701 is a cocktail of fully human mAbs discovered from convalescent COVID-19 patients that are directed at multiple envelope proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
AR-401 (blood stream infections). AR-401 is a fully human mAb preclinical program aimed at treating infections caused by gram-negative Acinetobacter baumannii.
AR-201 (RSV infection). AR-201 is a fully human IgG1 mAb directed against the F-protein of diverse clinical isolates of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This program is licensed exclusively to the Serum Institute of India.
For additional information on Aridis Pharmaceuticals, please visit https://aridispharma.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "forecast," "estimated" and "intend" or other similar terms or expressions that concern Aridis' expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. These forward-looking statements are based on Aridis' current expectations and actual results could differ materially. There are a number of factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the need for additional financing, the timing of regulatory submissions, Aridis' ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of its existing product candidates and any other product candidates it may develop, approvals for clinical trials may be delayed or withheld by regulatory agencies, risks relating to the timing and costs of clinical trials, risks associated with obtaining funding from third parties, management and employee operations and execution risks, loss of key personnel, competition, risks related to market acceptance of products, intellectual property risks, risks related to business interruptions, including the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus, which could seriously harm our financial condition and increase our costs and expenses, risks associated with the uncertainty of future financial results, Aridis' ability to attract collaborators and partners and risks associated with Aridis' reliance on third party organizations. While the list of factors presented here is considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those described or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including, without limitation, market conditions and the factors described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Aridis' 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, and Aridis' other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements included herein are made as of the date hereof, and Aridis does not undertake any obligation to update publicly such statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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BELTON — After hearing three days of testimony and evidence presented by the state, a jury in a capital murder trial heard the defense’s side on Thursday, including from the defendant.
However, they were not convinced of the story told by 23-year-old Barnard Lnell Morrow, a former Fort Hood soldier who gunned down three people at a Killeen apartment.
After a few hours of deliberation on Thursday afternoon, the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
“Having been convicted of capital murder, his sentence is automatic and as such the court sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole,” said Bell County District Attorney Henry Garza, on Thursday. “We would like to extend our grateful appreciation for the hard work by the Killeen Police Department who gathered the evidence necessary to prove him guilty of this horrible crime.”
Morrow, of Newton, Mississippi, has been held in the Bell County Jail since Sept. 3, 2020.
The three people killed — Asia Cline, 22, Shaquan Markell Allred, 23, and Fort Hood soldier Spc. Freddy Beningo Delacruz Jr., 23 — were found in their apartment in the early morning hours of March 14, 2020, at Summerlyn Apartments.
A forensic pathologist from the Dallas County Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences testified on Wednesday that the three victims suffered a total of 20 gunshot wounds.
‘They were the only family I had in Texas’
The state rested its case at the end of the day on Wednesday, after calling 20 witnesses and presenting more than 150 items of evidence.
On Thursday, the defense called Morrow to the stand at its first of two witnesses. Frequently looking directly at members of the jury as he spoke, the defendant testified for about an hour and a half. Morrow said that he, Allred and Delacruz graduated together from Army basic training at Fort Benning, and that their friendship continued through the years.
Morrow joined the Army when he was 19 years old and served for about a year in a tank company.
After being stationed at Fort Hood, Morrow said he reached out to his old buddies and they obtained apartments just a 3-minute drive apart.
“We did a lot of things together,” Morrow said, referring to Allred. “Allred and ‘DC’ were the only family I had in Texas.”
Morrow said that he found out about the triple homicide the next day, when someone told him to check social media.
“I had a lot of thoughts,” he said. “It was sad.”
He told the jury that he did not know that undercover police were surveilling him in the days following the shootings, until on March 20, 2020, when the vehicle he was in was swarmed by police.
“I thought that this weapon that I came across again is why they’re here,” Morrow said.
Eventually, police were able to match the Canik 9-mm pistol in his possession at that moment to casings found at the crime scene.
Morrow insisted that his Canik, which he had purchased in 2019 from a soldier, had been stolen out of his vehicle in late January of 2020. The gun returned to his possession on March 16, 2020, when he went for a run and encountered a white Walmart bag with the disassembled gun inside, he said.
“Everyone knew the route that I take on my runs and that I stop there under the bridge to do push-ups, so the only person who could have found it was me,” Morrow said.
He told the jury that he had been at home drinking a daiquiri and talking to his mother during the time of the murder.
“I didn’t go to Allred’s apartment because I’d ran out of ‘green’ (marijuana) and I never show up empty-handed,” Morrow said. “I’d probably be dead, too.”
The state’s prosecutor questioned Morrow on apparent inconsistencies in his statements to police.
“You were giving them (KPD) bits and pieces and changing your story along the way,” said Assistant District Attorney Mike Bedford. “They gave you every opportunity to tell the truth and you continued to mislead them.”
Morrow admitted that he did not tell the police the entire story.
“I figured they were going to try and blame me for all this,” he said. “Now, I have to tell the truth because my life is on the line.”
After Morrow left the stand, his mother, Denise Lloyd, was called as a witness.
She told the jury that she and her son were messaging and video-chatting during the time of the murders. Defense attorney Mike White entered into evidence screen shots of the activity that was taking place from 11:57 p.m. to 1:27 a.m. on March 20, 2020.
“He was working on a song and he wanted to share it with me,” Lloyd said. “He was his regular self. He was excited about his song.”
‘This is a search for truth’
After the defense rested its case, the jury listened to closing arguments for about an hour.
“This is a search for truth and justice for Asia Cline, Shaquan Allred and Freddy Delacruz,” Bedford said.
He described in detail the circumstances of the deaths of each victim.
“Allred was playing a video game with a headset on ... he was shot execution-style, without a chance,” Bedford said. “Delacruz then would have been aware that something bad happened in the living room, and he ends up shot multiple times in the back as he fled the violence. Cline is someone that everyone loved. She was trapped in the bathroom of her own apartment. He unloads seven rounds into her head-on.”
White reminded the jury that, even though they naturally are driven to seek closure for the families of murder victims, the state has to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
“If we lock up the wrong person, there is no closure,” he said. “The search for truth stops.”
White argued that there was a lack of evidence against his client, and also a lack of motive.
“Barnard Morrow had no vengeful motive; these were friends he smoked and played video games with,” he said. “There were no hairs, no DNA, no fibers or other forensic evidence that places Barnard Morrow in that apartment on March 13 or 14, 2020.”
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Albemarle (ALB) Stock Moves -0.9%: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Albemarle (ALB) closed at $221.15, marking a -0.9% move from the previous day. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's daily loss of 1.57%. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Coming into today, shares of the specialty chemicals company had gained 16.76% in the past month. In that same time, the Basic Materials sector gained 9.98%, while the S&P 500 gained 5.37%.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from Albemarle as it approaches its next earnings report date. In that report, analysts expect Albemarle to post earnings of $1.65 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 50%. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $1.04 billion, up 25.18% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $5.98 per share and revenue of $4.41 billion. These totals would mark changes of +48.02% and +32.39%, respectively, from last year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Albemarle. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, which ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 0.21% lower. Albemarle currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
In terms of valuation, Albemarle is currently trading at a Forward P/E ratio of 37.32. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 12.26, which means Albemarle is trading at a premium to the group.
It is also worth noting that ALB currently has a PEG ratio of 1.67. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. ALB's industry had an average PEG ratio of 0.93 as of yesterday's close.
The Chemical - Diversified industry is part of the Basic Materials sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 167, which puts it in the bottom 35% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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Highway 20 work starts Tuesday
Caltrans is reminding motorists to expect travel delays and one-way traffic control at various Highway 20 locations in Nevada County for construction activities and vegetation removal.
Beginning Tuesday, multiple contractors will be working on Highway 20 near Conservation Road and Pine Needle Lane, just west of Washington Ridge. Motorists should expect one-way traffic control and 20-minute travel delays weekdays between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Work in this area is expected to continue through Friday, April 22. Weather or other unexpected events may prolong construction activities.
Teichert Construction of Roseville will be constructing two turnouts on eastbound and westbound Highway 20, just west of Conservation Road and Pine Needle Lane. The work is part of a $2.8 million project that is also installing two turnouts on Highway 193 in Placer County.
In addition, Granite Construction, Inc. of Sacramento, will be widening the roadway to accommodate a left turn lane and extending an existing turnout to meet current standards near Conservation Road and Pine Needle Lane as part of the $62.5 million Omega Curves safety project.
The turnouts will provide designated areas where slow-moving vehicles may pull off the road to permit other motorists to safely pass. They also serve as traffic enforcement locations for the California Highway Patrol.
Motorists are also advised that one-way traffic controls with associated delays may occur at other Highway 20 locations for continued tree removal operations. Consult Caltrans’ “QuickMap” for current road conditions and work locations at quickmap.dot.ca.gov. QuickMap is also free to download on the App Store or Google Play.
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Highway 20 work starts Tuesday
Caltrans is reminding motorists to expect travel delays and one-way traffic control at various Highway 20 locations in Nevada County for construction activities and vegetation removal.
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(NEXSTAR) — Consumer goods company Unilever has initiated a voluntary recall of two of its Suave antiperspirant products due to concerns over benzene content – exposure to high levels of the chemical has been linked to several types of cancer.
The affected products are Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirants, both the “Fresh” and “Powder” scents. The 4-6 ounce spray cans feature the UPC codes:
- 079400751508
- 079400784902
- 079400785503
Items with these UPC codes and expiration dates through September 2023 are the only Unilever/Suave products affected by the recall.
Unilever explains that the antiperspirants themselves don’t contain benzene but a review showed “unexpected” levels from the propellant that sprays the product from the cans. The company says the 24-hour deodorant sprays were discontinued last year for unrelated business reasons and were previously in limited distribution at U.S. stores and online.
Retailers who carried the items have also been notified to pull any that remain, Unilever says. Anyone who has the affected products should discard them immediately.
Customers with questions or concerns can contact Unilever at (866) 204-9756. More information on the products and reimbursement can also be found at the Suave Recall page. The Food and Drug Administration says customers who may have experienced adverse reactions to the aerosols can report to its MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting.
Benzene
So what is benzene?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains that benzene is a colorless or yellow liquid when at room temperature. It can be naturally occurring – in volcanoes, forest fires and oil, for example – or found in human manufacturing.
Benzene is among the top 20 chemicals used in the U.S., the CDC says. It’s used to make plastics, nylons and some types of lubricants, rubbers, dyes, detergents and drugs. Tobacco smoke is a large source of benzene exposure to humans.
How is it harmful?
The CDC reports benzene damages the human body by causing cells to malfunction. For instance, bone marrow can stop producing adequate amounts of red blood cells. Additionally, it can cause changes in antibodies and white blood cell loss. Immediate symptoms of exposure include headaches, dizziness, tremors, vomiting and confusion.
Long-term exposure (longer than a year) can result in cancers, per the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Fishers Health Department’s COVID-19 testing, vaccination site moves to new location
In light of Fishers’ increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates and declining infection rates, coupled with declining demand for testing and vaccines, the Fishers Health Department (FHD) will consolidate all services, including COVID-19 testing and vaccination, at the FHD Clinic, 8937 Technology Drive, effective...
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Align Technology (ALGN) Stock Moves -1.4%: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Align Technology (ALGN) closed at $436, marking a -1.4% move from the previous day. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.09%.
Prior to today's trading, shares of the maker of the Invisalign tooth-straightening system had lost 10.88% over the past month. This has lagged the Medical sector's gain of 5.64% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Investors will be hoping for strength from Align Technology as it approaches its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of $2.24, down 10.04% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $1 billion, up 11.76% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $12.75 per share and revenue of $4.78 billion, which would represent changes of +13.64% and +20.88%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for Align Technology. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant. Align Technology is holding a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold) right now.
Digging into valuation, Align Technology currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 34.69. This represents a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 20.9.
Also, we should mention that ALGN has a PEG ratio of 2.74. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. ALGN's industry had an average PEG ratio of 2.45 as of yesterday's close.
The Medical - Dental Supplies industry is part of the Medical sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 105, which puts it in the top 42% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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A Killeen woman was arrested this week after allegedly attempting to stab someone following an argument.
According to the arrest affidavit, the woman, Alyssa Lay, got into an argument with a man that she had a relationship with and began destroying things and threatened the man with a knife.
The man showed police a video where Lay was threatening him with a knife. In speaking with police, Lay said she blacked out due anxiety and PTSD. She was arraigned Thursday on a charge of aggravated assault.
According to the affidavit, Lay also claimed that she did not remember standing over the man with a knife while he was lying in bed.
Justice of the Peace Bill Cooke has placed her bail at $100,000.
In other arraignments:
Cooke placed a $50,000 bail on Latasha Monique Noble on a charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle.
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American Airlines (AAL) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
American Airlines (AAL) closed at $18.25 in the latest trading session, marking a +1.11% move from the prior day. The stock outpaced the S&P 500's daily loss of 1.57%. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Prior to today's trading, shares of the world's largest airline had gained 10.26% over the past month. This has outpaced the Transportation sector's gain of 6.72% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
American Airlines will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of -$2.50, up 42.13% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $8.65 billion, up 115.85% from the prior-year quarter.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of -$2.73 per share and revenue of $42.88 billion. These totals would mark changes of +67.42% and +43.49%, respectively, from last year.
Any recent changes to analyst estimates for American Airlines should also be noted by investors. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 32.38% lower. American Airlines is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
The Transportation - Airline industry is part of the Transportation sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 197, putting it in the bottom 23% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Make sure to utilize Zacks.com to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and more, in the coming trading sessions.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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The City of Killeen said in a news release that the boil-water notice that began on Tuesday for properties located from 5,000 to 5332 Lance Loop and properties from 5000 to 5314 Tiffany Circle has been lifted.
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Jumbo is providing an industry-leading virtual event platform to live broadcast the anticipated annual event
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Event technology startup, Jumbo, announces its latest political partnership with the Hawai’i Democratic Party (HDP), where it will be building the virtual component of the party’s hybrid state party convention in May. Jumbo deploys custom virtual event platforms for enterprise organizations of all sizes.
“We are excited to partner with Jumbo to create our most accessible state party convention yet,” says Tyler Dos Santos-Tam, Party Chair for the Hawai’i Democratic Party. “By using a custom-built digital ecosystem through Jumbo, we will be able to cultivate an online atmosphere that feels just as welcoming as our state and just as powerful as our mission, all the while remaining easy to use for attendees.”
This is not Jumbo’s first partnership with a political party, as the scrappy tech company is coming off the heels of its November event supporting the North Carolina Democratic Party, where they designed a branded and fully-integrated platform that hosts webinars, meetings and conventions. “Through the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that every industry, politics especially, needs a solution to safely host their events while still finding innovative ways to engage their participants. Jumbo has revolutionized virtual events and through the course of our tenure, we’ve built the ideal platform to achieve our client’s goals,” says Justin Ritchie, CEO of Jumbo.
While some of the attendees will be partaking in the Hawai’i Democratic Party State Convention in person in Honolulu, virtual participants will be joining via a custom branded platform built by Jumbo. In addition to hosting a live broadcast of the event, this digital ecosystem will also be home to pre-recorded videos for attendees to watch at their leisure and PDF documents outlining initiatives that require votes. Further, the branded platform will host a live chat feature, a directory of attendees, individual user profiles, an integrated registration system and voting capabilities.
“Our goal with the hybrid events that we support is to give our attendees the opportunity to experience the event, not watch other attendees experience it. That’s what sets Jumbo apart from other event hosting platforms,” says Dion Beary, Director of Business Development for Jumbo. He adds, “We are thrilled to continue our work supporting parties, candidates and event organizers who wish to use virtual events to engage their communities.”
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Jumbo is an event technology company specializing in building virtual event platforms. Jumbo has revolutionized the virtual event industry by building custom virtual platforms for enterprise projects and providing its clients with the opportunity for a completely ownable platform with the flexibility and features they deserve.
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Berlin [Germany], April 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The German list of weapons for Ukraine has not been agreed "with anyone" in Kyiv, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Thursday, citing a source in the Ukrainian government.
On Wednesday, German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung reported that the German defense ministry had prepared a list of weapons worth 300 million euros ($334 million), which included drones and grenade launchers for Ukraine.
Germany still refuses to supply offensive weapons, in particular, tanks and fighters, and considers the possibility to provide Ukraine with grenade launchers and anti-aircraft missiles, sources told Die Welt, adding that even these decisions were not agreed with Kyiv.
According to the newspaper, Ukraine requests supply of reconnaissance and combat drones, while portable anti-aircraft and anti-tank systems are less needed.
On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine after the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk appealed for help in defending themselves against Ukrainian forces. (ANI/Sputnik)
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GORHAM, Maine — Maine school bus drivers are noticing more drivers ignoring their blinking red stop signs when they pull over to let kids on or off the bus.
More Maine school districts are adding exterior cameras to their buses to capture video footage of drivers who break the law and put kids in danger.
Gorham schools became the latest district to add more exterior cameras. It added 10 in February, with plans to add seven more, according to facilities and transportation director Norm Justice.
He said his drivers were noticing the problem getting worse at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year.
"We hope [the cameras will] have a change in behavior," Justice said. "I would hope that knowing now that we have a means of enforcement, that [drivers will] pay a little closer attention."
Parents are noticing, too.
"I've seen it on my way to work, cars just barreling past," Dave Ciampa, who also works for the district, said. Two of his children attend Gorham schools and ride the buses.
"It boggles my mind. It really just defies my level of logic. You don't know what people are thinking about when they do it," Ciampa said.
On March 16, Cumberland County Sheriff's deputies said 19-year-old Carly Rioux, of Gorham illegally passed a stopped school bus in Standish on the right side, the side where the door lets kids on and off. Video footage of that incident triggered bus drivers around the state.
"It made my heart go in my throat," Joanna Gordon, a bus driver for Gorham schools, said. "That really scared me that people are not paying attention driving. That could have been myself, a car going by my door."
Police charged Rioux with passing a stopped school bus. A first offense carries a minimum fine of 250 dollars.
Other cities, such as Bangor, have had the cameras for two years. Cyr Bus Line, which drives for the district, said the cameras work for catching people but not deterring them.
"It's gotten to be such an epidemic of people not paying attention that this has really helped [catch them]," Judy Wilcox, manager of the Bangor Division of Cyr Bus Line, said. "We hope we don't come to the day where it takes an injury to start paying attention."
"If people are not paying attention, it makes my job harder to make sure I'm paying attention for them and I'm doing what I need to do," Gordon said
In Maine, about 80 percent of students ride the school bus, according to the Maine Department of Education. During the school year in Maine, about 140,000 children are transported on 3,000 school buses by 2,200 school bus drivers over 30 million miles of urban and rural roads.
"This ridership is high compared to 50 percent national student ridership," the DOE wrote in a news release. "To add to this, Maine traditionally has one of the best safety records in the nation."
"Just that moment of 3 seconds of watching her cross the street. It is stressful," Ciampa said. "But hopefully these new safeguards will only prevent this from happening in the future."
Districts including Scarborough, Yarmouth, Bar Harbor, Trenton, RSU 34 (Alton, Bradley, Old Town), Brewer, and Bangor have cameras on their buses, too.
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American Express (AXP) Stock Moves -1.45%: What You Should Know
American Express (AXP) closed at $187 in the latest trading session, marking a -1.45% move from the prior day. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's daily loss of 1.57%. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the credit card issuer and global payments company had gained 5.24% over the past month, outpacing the Finance sector's gain of 3.25% and lagging the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from American Express as it approaches its next earnings report date. This is expected to be April 22, 2022. On that day, American Express is projected to report earnings of $2.43 per share, which would represent a year-over-year decline of 11.31%. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $11.62 billion, up 28.18% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $9.73 per share and revenue of $49.94 billion. These totals would mark changes of -2.89% and +17.83%, respectively, from last year.
It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for American Express. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. With this in mind, we can consider positive estimate revisions a sign of optimism about the company's business outlook.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.08% higher within the past month. American Express is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that American Express has a Forward P/E ratio of 19.51 right now. Its industry sports an average Forward P/E of 11.65, so we one might conclude that American Express is trading at a premium comparatively.
We can also see that AXP currently has a PEG ratio of 1.67. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. AXP's industry had an average PEG ratio of 0.84 as of yesterday's close.
The Financial - Miscellaneous Services industry is part of the Finance sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 104, which puts it in the top 41% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Make sure to utilize Zacks.com to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and more, in the coming trading sessions.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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Crumbl Cookies is now officially open in Harker Heights after much anticipation from the community. The company is hosting its grand opening Friday and will be open from 8 a.m. to midnight in Market Heights, 201 E. Central Texas Expressway.
The soft opening was held Thursday and the line to receive the famous cookies wrapped around the building.
Crumbl Cookies is a specialty cookie store that has a weekly rotation of various cookie delights. The current flavors of cookie that customers can buy are sugar with icing, milk chocolate chip, peanut butter brownie, Oreo milkshake, honeycomb, coconut white chip.
Customers can buy a single cookie for $3.48, four-pack for $12.29, a six-pack for $18.10 or the 12-pack $31.35 The store also provides half-pints of ice cream for $3.83.
After the opening, the Heights store hours will be Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. to midnight. The store will be closed on Sunday.
The store will also offer curbside pickup and delivery through third-party apps like DoorDash.
To learn more about Crumbl Cookies and its rotating menu, go to https://crumblcookies.com/
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Goldcoin (GLC) traded down 2.3% against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on March 31st. One Goldcoin coin can now be bought for about $0.0978 or 0.00000214 BTC on popular exchanges. Goldcoin has a market capitalization of $4.27 million and $8,365.00 worth of Goldcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last seven days, Goldcoin has traded down 18.1% against the US dollar.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000304 BTC.
- Litecoin (LTC) traded 5.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $124.38 or 0.00271766 BTC.
- UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 4.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.80 or 0.00012681 BTC.
- Polymath (POLY) traded 4.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.53 or 0.00001160 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded down 8.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.65 or 0.00001420 BTC.
- ConstitutionDAO (PEOPLE) traded down 11.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0715 or 0.00000156 BTC.
- Hellenic Coin (HNC) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3.68 or 0.00010892 BTC.
- Verge (XVG) traded 13% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0137 or 0.00000030 BTC.
- Presearch (PRE) traded 3.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.19 or 0.00000405 BTC.
- XeniosCoin (XNC) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.65 or 0.00001420 BTC.
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According to CryptoCompare, “GoldCoin (GLD) is the Gold Standard of Digital Currency – With large vibrant support, trading communities, real world appeal and an extremely devoted development team, GoldCoin is the Gold Standard of Digital Currency. Block time + difficulty changes depending on the height of the block chain along with demarcated block rewards. The GoldCoin team have implemented Golden River – a method to adjust the block time each block to counteract large swings in hashing power pointed at the network – this method is smoother than than the Kimoto Gravity well meaning block times are more closely regulated. “
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Scientists finally finish decoding entire human genome
Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago.
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An international team described the first-ever sequencing of a complete human genome – the set of instructions to build and sustain a human being – in research published Thursday in the journal Science. The previous effort, celebrated across the world, was incomplete because DNA sequencing technologies of the day weren't able to read certain parts of it. Even after updates, it was missing about 8% of the genome.
“Some of the genes that make us uniquely human were actually in this ‘dark matter of the genome’ and they were totally missed,” said Evan Eichler, a University of Washington researcher who participated in the current effort and the original Human Genome Project. “It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done.”
Many — including Eichler's own students — thought it had been finished already. “I was teaching them, and they said, 'Wait a minute. Isn’t this like the sixth time you guys have declared victory? I said, ’No, this time we really, really did it!”
Scientists said this full picture of the genome will give humanity a greater understanding of our evolution and biology while also opening the door to medical discoveries in areas like aging, neurodegenerative conditions, cancer and heart disease.
“We’re just broadening our opportunities to understand human disease,” said Karen Miga, an author of one of the six studies published Thursday.
The research caps off decades of work. The first draft of the human genome was announced in a White House ceremony in 2000 by leaders of two competing entities: an international publicly funded project led by an agency of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a private company, Maryland-based Celera Genomics.
The human genome is made up of about 3.1 billion DNA subunits, pairs of chemical bases known by the letters A, C, G and T. Genes are strings of these lettered pairs that contain instructions for making proteins, the building blocks of life. Humans have about 30,000 genes, organized in 23 groups called chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of every cell.
Before now, there were "large and persistent gaps that have been in our map, and these gaps fall in pretty important regions,” Miga said.
Miga, a genomics researcher at the University of California-Santa Cruz, worked with Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute to organize the team of scientists to start from scratch with a new genome with the aim of sequencing all of it, including previously missing pieces. The group, named after the sections at the very ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, is known as the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium.
Their work adds new genetic information to the human genome, corrects previous errors and reveals long stretches of DNA known to play important roles in both evolution and disease. A version of the research was published last year before being reviewed by scientific peers.
“This is a major improvement, I would say, of the Human Genome Project,” doubling its impact, said geneticist Ting Wang of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who was not involved in the research.
Eichler said some scientists used to think unknown areas contained “junk." Not him. "Some of us always believed there was gold in those hills," he said. Eichler is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press's health and science department.
Turns out that gold includes many important genes, he said, such as ones integral to making a person's brain bigger than a chimp's, with more neurons and connections.
To find such genes, scientists needed new ways to read life's cryptic genetic language.
Reading genes requires cutting the strands of DNA into pieces hundreds to thousands of letters long. Sequencing machines read the letters in each piece and scientists try to put the pieces in the right order. That's especially tough in areas where letters repeat.
Scientists said some areas were illegible before improvements in gene sequencing machines that now allow them to, for example, accurately read a million letters of DNA at a time. That allows scientists to see genes with repeated areas as longer strings instead of snippets that they had to later piece together.
Researchers also had to overcome another challenge: Most cells contain genomes from both mother and father, confusing attempts to assemble the pieces correctly. T2T researchers got around this by using a cell line from one “complete hydatidiform mole," an abnormal fertilized egg containing no fetal tissue that has two copies of the father’s DNA and none of the mother’s.
The next step? Mapping more genomes, including ones that include collections of genes from both parents. This effort did not map one of the 23 chromosomes that is found in males, called the Y chromosome, because the mole contained only an X.
Wang said he’s working with the T2T group on the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, which is trying to generate “reference," or template, genomes for 350 people representing the breadth of human diversity.
“Now we’ve gotten one genome right and we have to do many, many more,” Eichler said. “This is the beginning of something really fantastic for the field of human genetics.”
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https://www.wvtm13.com/article/scientists-finally-finish-decoding-entire-human-genome/39601005
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Valobit (VBIT) traded down 2.2% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. In the last seven days, Valobit has traded up 26.6% against the U.S. dollar. Valobit has a total market cap of $35.92 million and approximately $25,135.00 worth of Valobit was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Valobit coin can currently be purchased for $0.0299 or 0.00000065 BTC on major exchanges.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Tether (USDT) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002185 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded down 4.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001789 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded down 4.7% against the dollar and now trades at $21.51 or 0.00046994 BTC.
- Shiba Inu (SHIB) traded down 4.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Wrapped TRON (WTRX) traded up 3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0744 or 0.00000163 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded down 3.7% against the dollar and now trades at $3,257.98 or 0.07118670 BTC.
- EarnX (EARNX) traded 396,248.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0008 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded down 2.6% against the dollar and now trades at $45,829.95 or 1.00138316 BTC.
- stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3,479.19 or 0.06807369 BTC.
- Filecoin (FIL) traded 6.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $24.39 or 0.00053284 BTC.
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ServiceNorfolk pop-up counters return
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Pop-up service counters for Norfolk residents in the west end of the county are back in business following a lay-off this winter due to COVID-19 precautions.
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Norfolk staff is prepared to deliver a number of county services at prescribed times at specific locations three days a week. Services available once more include:
- Payment processing. This includes property taxes, parking tickets, recreation accounts, building and planning fees, and any other county fees.
- Issuing marriage licences, commissioning services, dog tags, and the sale of county flags.
- Issuing burn permits and burial permits.
- Reception and processing of work requests for roads, drainage, forestry services, water shut-offs and the like.
- Receiving and delivering correspondence for all county divisions.
- Receiving and delivering well water sample bottles for testing.
- The scheduling of bulky item garbage pick-ups and household hazardous waste days. Consult the county website for more information on which items the county is prepared to handle in both areas.
The scheduling of pop-up services counters in the west end and their locations are as follows:
- The Port Rowan branch of the Norfolk County Public Library Tuesdays each week from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m.
- The Delhi administration building in downtown Delhi Wednesdays each week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- The Langton Community Centre Thursdays each week from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The services offered in these locations are in addition to the full-time ServiceNorfolk counter at the Robinson Street administration building in Simcoe. Hours here are Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Flowserve Co. (NYSE:FLS – Get Rating) has been given a consensus rating of “Buy” by the nine analysts that are covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1-year price target among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $38.43.
FLS has been the topic of several research reports. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Flowserve from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $33.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, December 7th. Morgan Stanley decreased their price target on shares of Flowserve from $35.00 to $32.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 25th. StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of Flowserve in a research note on Thursday. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. Credit Suisse Group decreased their price target on shares of Flowserve from $40.00 to $38.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 25th. Finally, Mizuho upgraded shares of Flowserve from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their price target for the company from $34.00 to $35.00 in a research note on Friday, February 25th.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Trust Co. of Vermont bought a new position in Flowserve in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Tompkins Financial Corp bought a new position in Flowserve during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $38,000. Systematic Alpha Investments LLC bought a new position in Flowserve during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $37,000. Covestor Ltd bought a new position in Flowserve during the 4th quarter worth approximately $47,000. Finally, Eagle Bay Advisors LLC raised its holdings in Flowserve by 33.2% during the 3rd quarter. Eagle Bay Advisors LLC now owns 1,547 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $55,000 after purchasing an additional 386 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 92.34% of the company’s stock.
Flowserve (NYSE:FLS – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 23rd. The industrial products company reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.48 by ($0.03). The company had revenue of $919.46 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $956.08 million. Flowserve had a net margin of 3.56% and a return on equity of 10.15%. Flowserve’s revenue for the quarter was down 6.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.53 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts expect that Flowserve will post 1.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 8th. Investors of record on Friday, March 25th will be issued a $0.20 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 24th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.23%. Flowserve’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 82.47%.
Flowserve Company Profile (Get Rating)
Flowserve Corp. engages in the manufacture and provision of aftermarket service for comprehensive flow control systems. It operates through the following segments: Flowserve Pumps Division and Flow Control Division. The Flowserve Pumps Division segment provides pumps, pre-configured industrial pumps, pump systems, mechanical seals, auxiliary systems and replacement parts and related services.
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Shares of Phillips 66 PSX slid 1.20% to $86.39 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 1.57% to 4,530.41 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. The stock's fall snapped a two-day winning streak. Phillips 66 closed $7.95 below its 52-week high ($94.34), which the company achieved on June 10th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM fell...
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Michele Bullock has become the first female deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced Ms Bullock to replace retiring deputy Guy Debelle on Friday.
She joined the central bank in 1985 as an analyst and has been an assistant governor since 2010.
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Ms Bullock is also a member of the Council of Financial Regulators and works extensively with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Treasury.
The appointment is for five years.
Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers said she would bring much experience after a distinguished career.
"The departure of Guy Debelle has provided an opportunity for renewal in the most senior echelons of the RBA and it's pleasing to see a woman appointed as deputy for the first time," Dr Chalmers said.
However, he said it was disappointing the federal opposition had been "informed of this appointment today rather than consulted".
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MKS Instruments down ~3% post Q4 earnings
- MKS Instruments's CEO Gerald Colella says that despite semiconductor market headwinds in H2 FY18, the company is pleased with the Q4 results; sales declines 10% Y/Y to $461M.
- Sales breakout: Vacuum and Analysis: $258M (down 10% Q/Q); Light and Motion: $203M (+1%).
- Sales by customer type: Semiconductor: $235M (down 10% vs. 3Q 2018); Advanced Markets: $226M (flat).
- Gross margin declines 100bps to 45.6%; adj. operating margin is down ~220bps to 23.7%; adj. EBITDA margin compresses ~165bps to 26.7%
- The company expects Q1 FY19 sales to be ~$400M-$440M, as compared to consensus of $449M; non-GAAP EPS to be ~$0.95 - $1.18 vs. consensus of $1.51.
- (NASDAQ:MKSI) slides 2.78% in pre-market
- Previously: MKS Instruments beats by $0.03, beats on revenue (Jan. 29)
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Lots of us cannot wait to get out on the roads walking, running and cycling, horseback riding and downhill mountain biking.
Inevitably this time of year my mind drifts to why as a society it is still acceptable to leave big piles of horse manure on the roads and trails we love to use. These are multi-use streets and trails there for everyone to enjoy.
Dog owners keep the parks and trails clean, for the most part, and many have bags available that greatly help with this. Bylaws dedicated to proper dog poo etiquette have certainly helped. It was once commonplace to dump bed pans and garbage in the streets, but as a society we moved on from that. Isn’t it time people start picking up the horse manure too?
People will argue that horse manure isn’t harmful to humans. But the health implications aren’t really the point. No one wants to step in the stuff with their boots or shoes, especially during the wet spring months. Downhill mountain bikers don’t want a spray of yellow-green poo up their backs, and personally I know I don’t like the underside and wheel wells of my car needing to be cleaned before I do an oil change or swap on the summer tires.
The solution is quite easy. It only takes a minute to dismount, kick the manure to the side of the trail where it will do the most good as fertilizer, and then remount and continue on. If, like most people, the thought of manure on your boots isn’t appealing, another simple solution is to carry a collapsible, or camping shovel as they’re labeled at most sporting goods stores. They come with a carrying case that can be attached to the back of any saddle. Once the shovel has been used, stab it into fresh soil to clean the surface, fold and store. Just like it is expected that a dog owner has a doggie bag, it should be a necessity for horse owners to have a small shovel (or another way of dealing with manure while in public). People spend many thousands of dollars on clothing, tack, and feed. What’s another $20?
My point is that everyone, no matter their activity of choice, gets to enjoy the same clean streets and trails as everyone else. And my hope is that this doesn’t come across as ‘finger pointing,’ but as a way to start a dialogue. Let’s leave public spaces as we would like to find them.
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To the Editor,
As a Registered Nurse of 29 years and Deputy Coroner here in Scott County I just want to say that I fully endorse Mark Sutton for the job of Scott County Coroner.
Mark is a retired firefighter and lifelong resident of Scott County. He has no other jobs or side gigs to interfere with running the office of coroner full time. He has compassion and integrity. He has been there for many families in their lowest times as a firefighter and deputy coroner and showed outstanding values and respect. Experience, dedication and compassion is what it takes for this job and Mark has shown that time and again in the lowest point of others lives.
I can not imagine anyone else being as prepared and educated for this job. In talking with others in the community they have had nothing but good to say about Mark when he has come to their aid in the capacity of a firefighter and a deputy coroner. There are not a lot of requirements for this position and anyone can run , but I ask the community to choose the one with true medical experience who can dedicate 100% of his time to the office as the position requires.
That’s what this RN will be doing. Experience, trust, integrity, compassion and education will all be brought to the office with a vote for Mark Sutton on May 17.
Christine Hawkins
Georgetown
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Caitlin Marshall even surprised herself with her showing in her first collegiate season.
The 2021 Noblesville High School graduate didn’t have lofty goals for his first season as a New York University freshman swimmer. But she managed to win the 200-yard butterfly at the March 18 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships at the Indiana University Natatorium at IUPUI.
“It felt surreal. I didn’t have big expectations coming in and I cannot believe that I even got the opportunity to compete at NCAAs, let alone win an event,” she said. “I don’t know if it has really sunken in yet. It is truly unbelievable.”
Marshall won in a school-record time of 1:59.20. She said it was exciting to have her hard work pay off.
Marshall credited her teammates’ support for her motivation.
“Traveling to NCAAs with such a big group of swimmers was incredible, and I definitely could not have done it without that group of people being there to support me and cheer me on,” she said. “Throughout the season, training with people that are just as dedicated and motivated as you are really assures that you are constantly giving your all. I think my support system was crucial to my success this season and I am forever grateful.”
Marshall also swam the 500 freestyle and 100 butterfly.
“I made consolation finals and placed 13th in the 500 freestyle but I did not make it as far in the 100 butterfly. I ended up placing 44th,” she said. “My 200 butterfly has been my main focus while training this year, but I may start to focus on more distance freestyle when we start back up next season.”
Marshall placed 12th in the 100-yard butterfly and 13th in the 500 freestyle at the 2021 IHSAA state finals.
“I originally was just looking at NYU for the academics and location, but I am beyond grateful that I received the opportunity to swim here,” she said.
Marshall hasn’t declared a major but said she is planning on double majoring in data science and mathematics.
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BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — It was an unconventional reason to pop champagne on Wednesday night, but neighbors on Panorama Drive gathered together because they all needed a reason to celebrate.
“I will find any excuse to have happy hour," joked Nic Ferrington.
When Nic and Katie Ferrington lost their home in the Marshall Fire, it was hard to have hope, but the beginning of debris removal changes that.
The family hired a private contractor, and the work to clear the ashes of their home began on Monday.
"Here’s to taking the first step to rebuilding," Nic said while holding up a Champagne glass. "It’s real glass, you can just throw it at the house when you’re done."
There are only a few homes standing on their road, and those neighbors, along with the ones who have been displaced, joined in on the celebration.
"I’m so happy for you guys," said Yvonne Gates, whose home survived. “I’m ready for you guys to come back because it’s lonely down there."
The contractors doing the work were invited too, and they even brought out a grill.
The Ferringtons also got good news recently about their insurance claim.
We had previously reported they were $800,000 underinsured, but after filing a complaint, insurance sided in their favor.
"And we just found out last Wednesday that they are upping our limits," said Katie. "It’s not like total replacement, but it’s more."
That celebration though wasn't as sweet knowing many of their neighbors won't get that good news.
"My neighbors over there, and these neighbors, they’re still all underinsured," said Nic.
The process is not easy, but seeing the excavators and shovels is finally progress.
"This is just exciting to get the journey going and thanks for sharing it with us," said Nic to the happy hour crowd. "And I hope we get to be a part of all of yours too."
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Pelosi on Thursday declined to say whether Thomas should recuse himself or resign from the court, telling reporters, “I don’t think he should have ever been appointed, so, we could take it back to there.”
But she did say that the court’s lack of a code of ethics presents a serious problem.
“They have no code of ethics,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference at the Capitol. “And it’s — really? The Supreme Court of the United States? They’re making judgments about the air we breathe and everything else, and we don’t even know what their ethical standard is? … Why should they have lower standards than members of Congress in terms of reporting and all the rest?”
Pelosi noted that H.R. 1, the For the People Act, includes language calling for the establishment of a judicial code of ethics. The measure passed the House this month in a largely party-line vote, but its chances are dim in the Senate.
The speaker suggested that a House committee may have a hearing on the code of conduct issue soon, although she did not elaborate.
On Thomas, in particular, Pelosi said little about the Supreme Court justice but did make a pointed remark about his wife’s text messages urging the Trump White House to work to overturn Biden’s win.
“I’ve heard people say from time to time, ‘Well, it’s a personal decision of a judge as to whether he should recuse himself,’ ” Pelosi said. “Well, if your wife is an admitted and proud contributor to a coup of our country, maybe you should weigh that in your ethical standards.”
Ginni Thomas’s text messages were among thousands of documents related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, including other text messages and emails, that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the attack before he abruptly stopped fully cooperating with the panel in December.
In some comments, Ginni Thomas was zealous in appealing to Meadows to help overturn the 2020 election results. “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark,” she wrote on Nov. 10, 2020. “The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said he was planning to call for a Supreme Court code of ethics as well in remarks on the Senate floor Thursday.
“I’m on the way to the Senate floor to talk about my Supreme Court Ethics Act and the need for the Supreme Court to adopt a binding Code of Conduct,” Murphy tweeted Thursday morning. “The Thomas revelations make it clear — the Supreme Court cannot and should not police itself.”
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In 2015, Gary Glitter was sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexually abusing three young girls between 1975 and 1980.
The former popstar suffered a spectacular fall from grace and is now a convicted pedophile.
Who is Gary Glitter and what were his crimes?
Gary Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, is a former singer and convicted pedophile who is 77 years old.
Born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in 1944, he rose to fame at the age of 28, when he joined the emerging glam rock scene under the name Gary Glitter.
His songs include I’m the Leader of the Gang (I Am), I Love You Love Me Love and Always Yours – and by 1975 he had sold 18 million records.
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MI-05 Congressional Candidate Dr. Sherry O’Donnell Temporarily Leaves Campaign Trail to Save Lives in Ukraine
STEVENSVILLE, MI, USA, March 31, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- While the President and Congress continue to debate and discuss the conflict in Ukraine, Congressional Candidate Dr. Sherry O’Donnell has temporarily left the campaign trail to save lives in Ukraine. Dr. O’Donnell doesn’t use her voice for soundbites, but her hands to bring medical attention to those in need in the midst of this tragic war. This is not political for the doctor; it is a way of life. Dr. Sherry O’Donnell has been serving in this capacity for more than twenty years. Whether it was the terrorist attack of 9/11, the Haitian earthquakes, the Indonesian tsunami, nine trips to NYC to treat COVID-19 during the original COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, or any of her 33 mission trips abroad, Dr. Sherry O’Donnell can always be counted upon to be in the first response: not with words but with action.
Dr. O’Donnell stated, “When I saw the tragedy happening in Ukraine, I could not just be a spectator and sit idly by. The decision to take action and help those in need was an easy one to make.”
Candidate Dr. Sherry O’Donnell made the decision that saving lives is more important than politics as usual and will return to the campaign trail upon arriving home from Ukraine next week.
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Disputed school admissions policy OK'd pending appeal
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court has granted a request from a northern Virginia school system to continue using a challenged admissions policy at a highly selective high school while it appeals a ruling that found the policy discriminates against Asian American students.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Thursday that Fairfax County Public Schools can continue to use its new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton rejected the new policy in a February ruling, saying that impermissible "racial balancing" was at its core. Commonly known as "TJ," the prestigious school near the nation´s capital is often ranked as one of the best public high schools in the country.
Earlier this month, Hilton also rejected a request from the school system to delay the implementation of his ruling. But the 4th Circuit, in a 3-2 ruling, said the school board had met the legal requirements for a suspension of Hilton's order while its appeal is pending.
The 4th Circuit panel agreed with school officials who argued that because the selection process for the incoming freshman class is well underway, implementing Hilton's ruling now would throw the process into chaos.
Judge Toby Heytens wrote that he has "grave doubts" about Hilton's conclusions "regarding both disparate impact and discriminatory purpose" of the new admissions policy.
"In my view, appellant Fairfax County School Board is likely to succeed in its appeal," Heytens wrote.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Allison Jones Rushing said putting Hilton's ruling on hold while the school board appeals his decision is not in the public interest. Jones said any logistical difficulties or inconvenience associated with changing the admissions policy at this late date "simply do not outweigh the infringement of constitutional rights."
"And everyone - even temporarily frustrated applicants and their families - ultimately benefits from a public-school admissions process not tainted by unconstitutional discrimination," Rushing wrote.
The case has been closely watched as courts continue to evaluate the role that racial considerations can play when deciding who should be admitted to a particular school. Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a similar case alleging that Harvard University discriminates against Asian Americans in its admissions process.
Fairfield County Public Schools said the order from the 4th Circuit allows the school board to continue with the current application process to select the Class of 2026 this spring.
"For the 2,500+ students in this application pool, this means the race blind process set out by the School Board in October 2020 will remain in place as an appeal challenging the February court decision plays out," the board said in a news release.
The parents´ group Coalition for TJ, which filed the lawsuit, said the 4th Circuit judges have made a "grave error" in allowing the school system to continue to use its new admissions process.
"If the judges´ decision stands, we would see Fairfax County Public Schools usher in a second class of students to America´s No. 1 public high school through an unconstitutional race-based admissions process," the coalition said in a statement.
For decades, Black and Hispanic students have been woefully underrepresented in the student body. After criticism over its lack of diversity, the school board scrapped a standardized test that had been at the heart of the admissions process and opted instead for a process that sets aside slots at each of the county´s middle schools. It also includes "experience factors" like socioeconomic background.
The parents´ group argued in its lawsuit that Asian Americans, who constituted more than 70% of the student body, were unfairly targeted in the new policy.
The school´s current freshman class, which was admitted under the new policy, saw a significantly different racial makeup. Black students increased from 1% to 7%; Hispanic representation increased from 3% to 11%. Asian American representation decreased from 73% to 54%.
The school system has insisted that its new policies are race neutral, and the panel evaluating applicants is not even aware of applicants´ race as it conducts its reviews.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10674383/Disputed-school-admissions-policy-OKd-pending-appeal.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
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See Where Jenelle Evans’ Mom Barbara Is Now!
Jenelle Evans had a cute reunion recently with her mother Barbara after their disagreement.
Jenelle and her mother’s reunion is shocking to some fans since the two have been feuding for a while. According to The Sun, Jenelle filed for sole custody of her eldest son, Jace, on January 28, 2021. Things got worse between the mother and daughter when Jenelle filed for emergency custody over her son.
At the time, Jenelle said her relationship with her mother is beyond repair now after their custody battle. “Things have been pretty rocky at her house with Jace for the past two years. There hasn’t been a major change. We agreed for Jace to live with me and she took back her word like a week later.” Jenelle even added that Jace developed behavioral issues while living with his grandmother.
In June 2021, Jenelle told fans she had regained full custody of her son, Jace. Despite their strained relationship, Evans revealed she would not try to stop Jace from having a relationship with Barbara. “They’ve been together for such a long time, and I don’t want to be petty and be petty against Jace just because I have something against my mom.”
However, Jenelle’s recent medical diagnosis has brought the Teen Mom star closer to her mother. They reunited and were even seen sharing a cup of coffee in a sweet post on Jenelle’s Instagram stories. She wore a hooded top as she smiled for the photo holding a mug that read, “Main Character Energy.” Barbara and Jenelle looked happy to be in each other’s presence.
Jenelle Evans was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, followed by her confession that she has been undergoing tests for ALS. She told fans on TikTok, “So, yeah, about that. Let me tell you guys a little health update and sorry you’re going through the same thing. I got a second opinion from a different neurologist and she’s going to be checking me for ALS.” She finished by saying hopefully she will get answers soon.
Jenelle also has a strained relationship with her father. In her book, Read Between The Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom. She said, “Robert Evans was only in my life for a little while. For that short and glorious time, I was daddy’s little girl. I loved and admired him. I still do in some way. Without warning, everything changed, and my dad cut himself out of my life.”
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Shares of Pinnacle West Capital Corp.
PNW,
+0.53%
inched 0.53% higher to $78.10 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.57%
falling 1.57% to 4,530.41 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.56%
falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. This was the stock's seventh consecutive day of gains. Pinnacle West Capital Corp. closed $10.44 short of its 52-week high ($88.54), which the company reached on May 10th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Xcel Energy Inc.
XEL,
-0.21%
fell 0.21% to $72.17, Edison International
EIX,
+0.92%
rose 0.92% to $70.10, and IDACORP Inc.
IDA,
-0.82%
fell 0.82% to $115.36. Trading volume (794,304) remained 66,028 below its 50-day average volume of 860,332.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.
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WHAT ARE THE TOP-RATED FACE OILS ON SEPHORA?
From toners to serums to moisturizers, there’s no shortage of skincare products that help address your skin issues. Face oils are a relative newcomer to the scene, but they can be like a magic elixir for getting you the bright, smooth complexion of your dreams.
It may seem counterintuitive since we’ve been warned about oil clogging our pores and wreaking havoc on our skin for years. But face oils can work with your skin’s natural oils to provide additional protection for the skin. They also help soften and hydrate — and some oils even offer anti-aging and antibacterial properties. It’s all about choosing the right oil for your skin type and issues.
Want to introduce a face oil to your skincare routine? Check out these well-loved face oils from Sephora that can help give you beautiful, glowing skin, even without makeup.
Most popular face oils on Sephora for $30-$40
Danessa Myricks Beauty Beauty Oil with Gold Leaf
Featuring a blend of jojoba, sunflower seed, squalane and sweet almond oils infused with gold leaf, this facial oil provides a radiant glow to the skin. It also helps moisturize and create a perfect base for your makeup application. The formula is vegan and cruelty-free, too.
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This lightweight face oil features 100% pure squalane derived from olives. It’s a non-comedogenic formula that can help balance excess oil, making it an excellent option even for oily skin. It can also help improve the texture and tone of the skin.
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This multi-purpose face oil works for multiple skin types. It contains jojoba oil to hydrate and condition the skin, rosehip oil to firm and brighten, and wildcrafted buriti oil for antioxidant protection. The formula is lightweight and absorbs quickly but leaves your skin feeling moisturized for up to 12 hours.
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Most popular face oils on Sephora for $40-$50
Youth to the People Superberry Hydrate + Glow Dream Oil
This facial oil is chock full of super berry antioxidants from maqui, acai and goji berries that deliver instant hydration and leave your skin with a luminous glow. It absorbs quickly and helps brighten the skin with vitamin C, and works well for most skin types, too.
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Josie Maran 100% Pure Argan Oil
This multi-purpose oil offers excellent hydration for not only your face but your hair and nails, too. It is a potent source of antioxidants, fatty acids and vitamin E that moisturize, protect and leave the skin with a lovely glow. The argan nuts are also ethically sourced, and the formula is vegan and cruelty-free.
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Volition Beauty Hibiscus Unspottable Correcting Oil
If you have dark spots or discoloration, this daily face oil helps brighten and exfoliate the skin. The hibiscus oil helps shed dead skin cells and soften the look of dark circles, while the licorice root extract illuminates and soothes the skin. It’s an ideal option for normal and dry skin.
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Anastasia Beverly Hills Hydrating Oil
Normal, dry and combination skin will appreciate this lightweight, hydrating oil. It contains antioxidants to provide protection against free radical damage to help soften the signs of aging. It also leaves the skin with a visible radiant glow that looks beautiful under makeup.
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GXVE by Gwen Stefani All Time Prime Clean Hydrating Prep & Smooth Face Oil
A versatile, lightweight face oil, this formula can provide up to 24 hours of hydration that creates a perfect canvas for makeup. It leaves the skin with a dewy glow and can even be mixed with your foundation for added luminosity. The oil also contains aloe to soothe the skin.
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Most popular face oils on Sephora for $50+
Summer Fridays Heavenly Sixteen All-in-One Face Oil
This non-comedogenic formula contains a blend of 16 vegan oils that help plump and hydrate the skin. It contains plenty of vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants, too, so it can strengthen and protect the skin. Its packaging is also recyclable.
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Damdam Rice Drops Vegan Face Oil
An excellent option for normal, dry or combination skin, this weightless face oil absorbs quickly but still moisturizes the skin well. It helps strengthen the skin’s protective barrier and creates an ideal base for makeup. It gives the skin a healthy glow, too.
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Clarins Santal Face Treatment Oil
Offering a blend of 100 percent pure plant oils, this facial oil can help soothe dry, irritated skin. It features hazelnut oil to reduce redness and keep the skin from losing moisture. It can be applied directly to the skin or mixed into your moisturizer to help boost hydration.
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StriVectin Super-B Barrier Strengthening Oil with Vitamin B3 and Prebiotics
This clinically proven facial oil may be the perfect treatment for dry or mature skin. It has a lightweight feel but helps soothe dry skin and lock in moisture. It also reduces redness and brightens dull skin. The formula is non-comedogenic, too.
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Josie Maran Skin Dope Argan Oil + 100 Milligrams of CBD
This plant-based facial oil can help soothe stressed, irritated skin. The argan oil offers antioxidants and essential fatty acids to protect the skin, while the CBD helps calm sensitive skin. It also helps improve the look of dull, uneven skin.
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Drunk Elephant A-Gloei Retinol Oil
If you’re looking for a face oil that can address the signs of aging, this retinol-packed formula is for you. It helps improve the look and texture of uneven skin, so it works well for fine lines, dark spots and even blemishes. It also contains ceramides to help boost the skin’s natural protective barrier.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2: On Bringing In Other Elements From The Games
When it came to iconic imagery from the games, Sonic the Hedgehog didn't exactly lean into its source material once the characters ended up on Earth, and that's not a bad thing. The source material is a bit weird, and they were shooting for a pretty broad audience. However, now they have an audience on board, which means they get to, well, they get to be giant freaking nerds in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, which is by no means a bad thing. Director Jeff Fowler spoke to IGN about bringing in new elements to the sequel, such as The Labyrinth Zone.
"I was still working my way through some of the iconic imagery that we weren't able to do in the first film because it was a more grounded story," he said. "It was a road trip, so it would have been strange for them to find themselves in a labyrinth. But I always loved that visual, so we kind of brought that into this."
Fans have been quick to point out that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has many elements from the second game, including a poster that looks exactly like the cover art [as we said, they got to act like big ol' nerds, and we love that for them]. Fowler went on to talk about the other iconic imagery from the second game that we're going to see.
"The image of Tails flying the Tornado, the bi-plane, and delivering Sonic into battle from the end of Sonic 2. That is as iconic as it gets," said Fowler. "From the very early days of planning this film it was like 'We've got to get to here'. It's going to make fans go nuts, it's such a great image. The David and Goliath kind of image of that little bi-plane going up against a giant Death Egg robot, that type of stuff. It felt cinematic, it felt huge. Right from the early days, we thought that should be part of the story."
The review and social embargos for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 are both down, so you can check those out if you want to know what people think of the movie. We here at Bleeding C0ol are seeing it on Saturday, and we'll try to get our review up as soon as possible.
"After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and together they embark on a globe-trotting journey to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands. From the filmmakers behind The Fast and the Furious and Deadpool, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, and Jim Carrey returning, alongside new additions Shemar Moore, with Idris Elba as the voice of Knuckles, and Colleen O'Shaughnessey as the voice of Tails."
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is directed by Jeff Fowler and stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore, Colleen O'Shaughnessey with Idris Elba and Jim Carrey. It will be released on April 8, 2022.
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EURATEX welcomes EU’s ambition for a sustainable and competitive industry, but calls for a smart and realistic implementation.
The European Commission launched its long-awaited Strategy for Sustainable Textile, with the ambition to maneuver the sector in direction of the trail of sustainability. EURATEX welcomes the EU ambitions to *act on sustainable textiles and investments, in an effort to
change how textiles are made, chosen and recovered*. Many European
firms have already chosen this path, due to this fact the technique ought to
help them on this course of, particularly contemplating at this time’s power disaster.
The technique recognises the *strategic significance of textiles*, that are
not solely used as attire or furnishings, however utilized in automobiles, medical
gear, agriculture, and so on. It acknowledges the European Industry
pro-active initiatives to deal with microplastics, to unravel challenges of
market surveillance and the talents wants. More cooperation is required for re-use
and recycling of textiles and to arrange an EU marketplace for secondary uncooked
supplies. On this final level, EURATEX ReHubs initiative
is growing proposals to dimension EPR potential,
to rework waste into worth, and create a brand new capability and jobs.
The proposed “transition pathways”, which can translate the technique into
motion, might be crucial on this respect: how will these sustainability
targets be reached, what is going to the fee for SMEs be, how can firms be
supported in that inexperienced transition, what concerning the affect on international
competitiveness ? These are important inquiries to be addressed within the
coming months.
The Textile technique is a part of a lot broader package deal, together with as many as
16 new legislative actions[1] <#m_3112324519115338530__ftn1> and different
insurance policies which can instantly affect on textile worth chain. In specific
the Sustainable Product Initiative Regulation launched at this time contains
game-changing provisions on Digital Product Passport, Eco-Design, SMEs and
Green Public Procurement. The *Regulation has an amazing ambition*
and, to be lifelike, it will require a brand new method of joint working between
establishments and enterprise, and which builds on classes discovered on knowledge stream
throughout worth chains, interoperability, conformity evaluation and efficient
measures to help SMEs.
If wrongly carried out, such an unprecedented wave might trigger a whole
collapse of the European textile worth chain below the burden of
restrictions, necessities, prices and unlevel taking part in area. On the
opposite, the modifications forward can increase your entire textile ecosystem and *create
a mannequin of profitable inexperienced and digital transition in manufacturing*, which
begins in Europe and expands globally.
Already in 2019, EURATEX requested coverage makers to work collectively and take away
boundaries to round economic system, clear up the market surveillance paradox in
which legal guidelines are made however not checked, and to assist create scale economies to
make sustainable textiles inexpensive, therefore the norm.
For instance, there are 28 billion merchandise circulating per 12 months in EU,
which is a powerful process for market surveillance authorities together with
customs. EURATEX has been stressing non-sufficient market surveillance
and it’s
actively engaged on options for a good and efficient market surveillance
of textile merchandise by way of Reach4Textiles
.
EURATEX very a lot welcomes that the European Commission acknowledges our work
and the necessity for market surveillance by establishing extra harmonised
efforts within the EU.
EURATEX additionally welcomes the institution of the Digital Product Passport. It
has a excessive potential to enhance each step within the textile worth chain, from
design and manufacturing to recycling and buying. At the identical time,
EURATEX calls the co-legislators to consider the function of SME’s in
this transition and to place ahead pragmatic initiatives, supporting SME’s
throughout the EU in a scientific strategy.
Alberto Paccanelli, EURATEX President, concludes: *EURATEX requires true
cooperation with all coverage makers and different stakeholders throughout the worth
chains to advise, pressure-test and use this chance for a profitable
transition. Our ambition have to be to reconcile sustainability, resilience
and competitiveness; we all know it may be performed”. *
*About EURATEX*
As the voice of the European textile and clothes business, EURATEX works
to attain a beneficial surroundings throughout the European Union for design,
improvement, manufacture and advertising and marketing of textile and clothes merchandise.
The EU textile and clothes business, with round 154,000 firms
using 1.47 million staff, is an important pillar of the native economic system
throughout many EU areas. With over €53 billion of exports, the business is a
international participant efficiently commercializing excessive added worth merchandise on
rising markets all over the world.
Working along with EU establishments and different European and worldwide
stakeholders, EURATEX focuses on clear priorities: an formidable industrial
coverage, efficient analysis, innovation and abilities improvement, free and
truthful commerce, and sustainable provide chains.
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